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You’ll Always Be My Baby

It feels like just yesterday I was staring down at my outstretched tummy, preparing to meet you for the first time. I was so excited to see your…

Right now, you’re best friends. You beg to come with me when it’s time to wake sissy up from her nap, and her first words every morning are…

People thought we were having an affair as we sat at the community pool and laughed and hugged and engaged in some seemingly very serious…

This has been an interesting month, to say the least. When this year started, I never could have imagined what 2020 would hold. I didn’t know that…

To my one and only child, is it OK if it’s just us? As I watch your heart grow bigger each day, I know without a shadow of a doubt your nurturing…

These people. This bond. This love. There are days I don’t like them. There are days, they feel the same way toward me. There are times I…

The first line stopped me mid-scroll. “Not everyone who lost his life in Vietnam died there.” I clicked through to the obituary…

Being a sibling is a strange thing. You are born into a family you don’t choose with brothers or sisters you don’t choose. And then you have to…

To my oldest child, I’ve been watching you with your little brother, and I want you to know how much I appreciate your help. Like when I haven’t…

I knew you’d been here. Not when I first stepped onto the dingy, gray tiles blanketing the green mermaid’s lair at the airport café. Nor…