To My Teenager: We’ll Do This Together
To my teenager, I’m sorry. I’m sorry for what I said this morning. I’m sorry for the way I said…
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To my teenager, I’m sorry. I’m sorry for what I said this morning. I’m sorry for the way I said…
Continue ReadingLadies, he isn’t Jesus. Your boyfriend, your fiancé, your husband . . . he isn't Jesus. Not even close. Yet,…
Continue ReadingFairytales take work. The storybooks don’t tell us that part, do they? They lead us to believe fairytales just happen—that…
Continue Reading"Show me, Daddy!" My big brown-eyed curly haired almost-3-year-old girl said to my husband while handing him her brand new…
Continue ReadingIt had been another long day and I was spent. One child cried for a full 12 hours, and despite…
Continue ReadingWhen you pursued me in an honorable way while dating. I knew you loved me then. When you promised me…
Continue ReadingDear out-of-town grandparent, I see you in your house over there. Too far for me to see, but familiar enough…
Continue ReadingI carry him. I know it looks silly, his toes dangle past my knees. He’s getting tall and heavy, too.…
Continue ReadingI'm not the same anymore. I don't think I ever will be. That's what having kids does to you. It…
Continue ReadingNot long ago my youngest son asked me, “What do you hope I’ll be when I grow up?” My first…
Continue ReadingThe note stuck out from a crack in my steering wheel, folded just so and placed right where you knew…
Continue ReadingIt starts with an umbilical cord. Blood and nutrients pumping into an unborn babe, connecting the baby to its mother.…
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