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The Stranger I Call Mother

When my mother called me last September, I was surprised by how easily I still recognized the sound of her voice. When I was four years old, my…

“We should get a tattoo, Mom.” I laughed. I knew it was just my younger daughter, Sarah’s way of getting herself a tattoo—to go along with…

I caught myself looking in the rear view mirror while driving yesterday searching for the little girls who used to sit in booster seats singing away…

Twenty years. It is hard to wrap my mind around that number. Twenty years ago this month, at the ripe old age of 17, I was in the process of sorting…

Dear Mom, I get it now. I get why you would hide in your bathroom and beg us to leave you alone. You weren’t being selfish or crabby. You were…

Your child is getting ready to fly away from the nest. He’s going to college—or moving away to work and live on his own. You’ve spent the last…

When your firstborn goes to college, he piles his things in the car and hugs his little brothers goodbye. “Why do you have to go?” The littlest…