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It’s a weird thing, mourning the living. It’s like your brain just can’t quite wrap itself around the process the…
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It’s a weird thing, mourning the living. It’s like your brain just can’t quite wrap itself around the process the…
Continue ReadingI don’t have a father, and it’s completely fine. It really, really is. It’s taken me 40 years to say…
Continue ReadingI’m living smack in the middle of a generational sandwich. If you haven’t heard the term before, “sandwich generation” refers…
Continue ReadingI cut off my brother a few months ago. Easter Sunday, to be exact. It wasn’t something I wanted to…
Continue ReadingIt’s OK to grieve your absent parents while they’re still alive. I see so many articles or well-meaning posts from…
Continue ReadingHallmark movies always give a happy ending after a complicated story. But what do you do when you don’t get…
Continue ReadingI just sent you photos of my son playing soccer, and at Disney, and out shopping for his very first…
Continue ReadingI changed my name back to my maiden name today. There was no great pomp or circumstance, the change was…
Continue Reading“You are an island, Melanie—an island alone!” she yelled at me. Her words were in part, a statement of what…
Continue ReadingEverything that is good about me as a parent was learned from my own parents. They have given me a…
Continue ReadingIt hits me at the strangest times. This morning, one of my daughter’s teachers held the door for her and…
Continue ReadingA letter to my family who isn’t interested in our son: Today I sent you pictures and recapped our fun-filled,…
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