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I’m a Woman Without Close Friends, and Here’s Why

I don’t have girlfriends. It feels pathetic. How does one go 38 years without developing a single drop-everything-and-be there-for-you…

Dear white moms, You are my friends. You are my sisters. We are the same in more ways than we are different, but there are a few things that I need…

Anxiety moved in when I was 15 years old. Her first gift was a panic attack that played out for hours on an old red couch in my best friend’s…

For years I haven’t put much thought to racism. I’m ashamed to say it, but it’s true. I’ve been taught my whole life not to…

“I’m fat, old, and out of shape,” I said in a matter of fact way as I entered the van. “Honey, you’re not fat,…

No one talks about the loss that happens when you become an aunt. No one talks about what you lose. What you didn’t intend on losing. No one talks…

Sticks and stones still break bones. Words still hurt. And racial violence still kills. I sat in bed the other night overcome with emotion over the…

There is a dish from my childhood that sings my name when I feel sad. It wraps me up in its warmth when I fall sick. I have likely slurped hundreds…

MAMA! These are my four sons. Paul Jr. Joseph, David, and Noah. They are cute funny and brilliant. I love them. I birthed them, I nursed them.…

If you were to zoom in on our family at dinner time recently, we’d look like any other family during normal times. Hubby and I making dinner, our…