When Do You Stop Needing a Father?
I wonder if it will ever go away—that incessant longing for something that doesn't exist. Something that is supposed to…
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I wonder if it will ever go away—that incessant longing for something that doesn't exist. Something that is supposed to…
Continue ReadingShe’s 13 and it feels like she’s always been with me. She's gone through five moves, the loss of her…
Continue ReadingHere's where it started: Several years ago, Mom and Dad delivered monthly meals to our home for ONE FULL YEAR.…
Continue ReadingYears ago, when my husband and I were first getting to know one another, he said to me, “Awara, if…
Continue ReadingAt some point many decades ago, the brown cardboard box my uncle Alwyn Harry, S.J. traveled with held Bachelor’s Friend…
Continue ReadingI wish I had asked more questions. My grandmother passed away just months before my first child was born. She…
Continue ReadingTwo years ago this very night, I sat in this very chair in front of this very window, surrounded by…
Continue ReadingYou don’t know what you don’t know. And I didn’t know what I put her through. My mom waited 11…
Continue ReadingMy husband and I both grew up with one set of grandparents living across the street from us. We spent…
Continue ReadingI had a dear friend growing up who had the healthy version of what my family could have looked like.…
Continue ReadingThe first time I met Nonna was when my husband and I were dressed up in our finest for an…
Continue ReadingWhen I would host parties in high school, Jeanine (my stepmom for the last 20 years) would leave a note…
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