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Dear Kids, If I Go Before You Grow

“What if I die before they grow?” This question has haunted me every day since I became a mother at 18. Although I didn’t know what I…

I want my daughter to be beautiful, like me. There, I said it. I want my daughter to be beautiful, like me. There, I said it twice. It took a long…

Technically, she was my great aunt, but we called her Aunt Marjorie. For most of my childhood, it was Aunt Marjorie and Aunt Mildred, a dynamic duo.…

I was making dinner one night and my three-year-old daughter was prancing around the kitchen dancing to her own little toddler tune. I saw her…

I’ve been in my 40s for a few years now, long enough to reflect on all the gifts life gives in this new decade which used to sound so old. Now that…

The day my grandmother died, I missed the phone call to tell her goodbye. I’ve often wondered how I would have handled the weight of that moment.…

Not one sock, shoe, sweater, shirt, shampoo, nail polish, tube of lipstick, stick of gum . . . nothing! Not. One. Thing. Three hundred sixty-five…

We had been intentionally driving through a nearby neighborhood on our drive home in search of Christmas lights. We have two young kids and…

My two daughters teach me things every single day, even though the trials and tribulations of motherhood are beyond challenging. At ages 13 and…

I am late pretty much everywhere, every day. I genuinely, genuinely with all of my heart want to be on top of things, want to be on time, but I am…