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Every May, I wrestle with, what is for me, the most highly fraught holiday of the year—Mother’s Day. As I…
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Every May, I wrestle with, what is for me, the most highly fraught holiday of the year—Mother’s Day. As I…
Continue ReadingMy daughter and I were chatting about her day when she nonchalantly said, “I didn’t get invited to my friend’s…
Continue Reading“You’re gonna miss this one day,” she said. “It all goes by so fast. It’s just a season, and in…
Continue ReadingYou were born at 5:37 p.m., and I held you from my bed in the labor and delivery room for…
Continue ReadingJust before dawn I wake, and my first thought is, She’s not here. Then I hear the familiar creak of…
Continue ReadingI don’t know what I expected, exactly. But I didn’t expect you to smile at me and say sweetly, “Thanks,…
Continue ReadingTo my children . . . There is something so special about a brother-sister bond. It is one of the…
Continue ReadingHi Dad, it’s me, your little girl. I am now a parent myself. I now have my own little kid…
Continue ReadingI have two young boys, ages seven and two. I am their momma. My own mother is not well, and…
Continue ReadingOnce upon a time, I was 25 and crying in the car. Weeping, actually, over my just-pregnant belly. There was…
Continue ReadingAfter three girls, we amassed a collection of Barbies and American Girl Dolls that would rival any toy store on…
Continue ReadingI feel like here, on the cusp of becoming a teenager, I can feel you slipping through my fingers as…
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