Dear Foster Child, I’m Staying
Dear foster daughter, Thank you. Thank you for allowing me to see how you feel, even when it’s hard. For…
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Dear foster daughter, Thank you. Thank you for allowing me to see how you feel, even when it’s hard. For…
Continue ReadingOne of my girlfriends posted that she was stranded at a local drive-thru and believed her battery needed a jumpstart.…
Continue ReadingI will not forget the year my daughter was three, and we were visiting family for the holidays. The wind,…
Continue ReadingToday, my husband and I went to pick up our groceries. It was a 30-minute drive from where we are…
Continue ReadingI may not be the best singer, but you want me to sing you to sleep every night. I may…
Continue ReadingHe steps in when I’m being stepped on. It’s not the most glamorous thing to say about your spouse, but…
Continue ReadingLoving a woman who has experienced trauma in her life isn’t always easy. The baggage she is carrying around is…
Continue ReadingI've made a lot of mistakes in my life. I've made a lot of choices I am not proud of.…
Continue Reading“I have a bizarre request . . . ” I was messaging the photographer who would take our daughter’s newborn…
Continue ReadingI feigned interest in a bag of frozen broccoli so no one would see me cry. I studied the list…
Continue ReadingWe met online in October of 2005, by way of a spam email ad I was THIS CLOSE to marking…
Continue ReadingThis morning when I woke up, I felt yucky from the aftermath of our beach vacation, eating too much Mexican…
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