Dear Daughter, You Don’t Have To Be a Wife and Mama
Baby girl, You won’t read this for years. As I write, you’re carefree, and four, and dancing in your frilliest…
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Baby girl, You won’t read this for years. As I write, you’re carefree, and four, and dancing in your frilliest…
Continue ReadingThe table was set, one celebratory cupcake with sprinkles and two simple, white memorial candles. As our daughter hoists herself…
Continue ReadingDear Husband, I realized something had gone wrong when you went to kiss me and I instinctively pulled away. I…
Continue ReadingLove ain’t always pretty but it sure as heck never looks ugly. Love is kind of like your spouse in…
Continue ReadingIt is there. Always there. Lurking in the background waiting to show itself. I try, so desperately, to push it…
Continue ReadingOur teenage daughter made a rare appearance in the living room at the same time my husband and I occupied…
Continue ReadingInfertility gives marriage a brand new meaning, one most couples don’t anticipate ever having to deal with. It’s not part…
Continue ReadingWhen I was in high school, I was with the school band and we were invited to perform at Disneyland.…
Continue ReadingI wake up at 6 a.m. with a toddler sleeping on my neck. Not my chest, not tucked into my…
Continue Reading“Don’t worry, you’ll find another dad for your kids, you’re young,” an older widow told me a week after my…
Continue ReadingWhen you think of your marriage, of your spouse, of what life will be like in 20, 30, maybe even…
Continue ReadingMy life is harder than my husband’s. There, I said it. Sure he works, has to deal with superiors and…
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