Daddy Issues Don’t Define Me
Growing up as the daughter of an addict comes with its fair share of baggage. I like to consider myself…
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Growing up as the daughter of an addict comes with its fair share of baggage. I like to consider myself…
Continue Reading“I’m going to tell my mama!” I’m still amazed how this sentence, shouted in frustration at her brothers, can still…
Continue ReadingWhile she sleeps, I'll examine her toes and smile at her sweet little legs. I'll smell her soft hair and…
Continue ReadingAs we were getting dressed after my daughter's swimming lesson a few weeks ago, I was hit with an upsetting…
Continue ReadingMy 14-year-old texted me from her break at work, telling me she felt impending doom. You don’t know my daughter,…
Continue ReadingWhen my daughter was 10, every time I told her she had a beautiful voice, she’d shrug and say, “I…
Continue ReadingI watch her sleeping peacefully, and I wonder who she’ll be. I wonder what will matter to her. I wonder…
Continue ReadingMy husband bought me a dress for our wedding anniversary, which is the first time in 25 years that he…
Continue Reading“You’re pregnant,” the doctor said. I cried. And I cried. I was 17 years old, and three months in. Not…
Continue ReadingMy little girls are funny and fierce and smart and loving. They’re fire and snuggles and sugar and fireworks. They…
Continue ReadingI love looking at my children. I always have. I remember rocking them, holding them just so I could look…
Continue ReadingDad, did you know . . . I strove diligently to make good grades, run good races, victoriously win at…
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