I Just Left a Piece of My Heart in a College Dorm
I saw Hoda Kotb today in New York about to start her third hour of The Today Show. I waved…
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I saw Hoda Kotb today in New York about to start her third hour of The Today Show. I waved…
Continue Reading“I got you, Mommy!” You squeal as you whirl around me, grabbing my legs. Picking you up and squeezing you…
Continue ReadingI opened the refrigerator door, peered my head so far inside it went just past the milk . . .…
Continue ReadingIt was 2016 when I first heard the story of a mom, similar to my age, who unexpectedly died during…
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Continue ReadingMy kids are growing up. They’re growing up fast. When they were tiny everyone said, “Enjoy it. It goes by…
Continue ReadingThese are the hands that held me as I took my first breaths. The hands that fed me and changed…
Continue ReadingYou were the baby. Our first. Our only, for a time. Until you weren’t. Until another came along. And then,…
Continue ReadingIf I had a degree in psychology, I could be a good mommy. I would get why you sometimes cry…
Continue ReadingToday I cried. I cried hard. I sat at top of the staircase, covered my face, and cried. When he…
Continue Reading“Mom, can you open it?” My daughter held out a container of mandarin oranges to me from across the kitchen…
Continue ReadingToday was a hard day. You were completely attached to me. You woke up in the morning angry. You didn’t…
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