If Only My Mother Were Still Here
My strongest memory of my momma is more of a feeling than a memory. I can see myself standing in…
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My strongest memory of my momma is more of a feeling than a memory. I can see myself standing in…
Continue ReadingDear Mom, Thinking back on my life as a child, young adult, and now a middle-aged mother myself, I am…
Continue ReadingIt was a hot summer day sometime in the middle of high school. I was young and naive, but the…
Continue Reading“I would die for my child, ”a well-known, often said sacrificial statement. I didn’t really know how my fierce love…
Continue ReadingTwo days before my first child left for college, I swallowed tears passing the chocolate milk in the grocery store.…
Continue ReadingMy own childhood was not a happy one. My earliest memory was of blowing out a birthday candle (I was…
Continue ReadingWhen my son was three months old, my aunt and uncle sent him a generously-stuffed cow from Texas that was…
Continue ReadingFor those of us who no longer have our moms physically here with us, I think the one thing we…
Continue ReadingYou were born at 5:37 p.m., and I held you from my bed in the labor and delivery room for…
Continue ReadingYou, my son, are precious. Yellow rain boots and mismatched clothes, you dig holes in the yard and try to…
Continue ReadingIt has been almost 15 years since I have seen my mother. I miss her soft hands. I miss her…
Continue ReadingIt was a Monday morning, and I was late again. Not because I wanted to be late. Not because I…
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