I See My Mother in the Mirror
My nose. I’ve always hated my nose. Let’s be honest, I’ve hated a lot of my body over the years.…
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My nose. I’ve always hated my nose. Let’s be honest, I’ve hated a lot of my body over the years.…
Continue ReadingDear Mom, Today I came home from the hospital with my brand-new baby boy. As my weak postpartum body hobbled…
Continue ReadingFive days after my mom’s chemo, my brother, Deno, flew home to Michigan. We were going to celebrate an early…
Continue ReadingShe’s gone. You ache for her, but you will no longer be blessed by her presence. She’s dead, and a…
Continue ReadingTomorrow is going to be seven years since my mom has been gone. Saying that out loud seems so surreal…
Continue ReadingIt’s a bizarre thing to mother your mother. I constantly worry if she is sad, if she feels lonely, and…
Continue ReadingOn April 25, 2018, my world imploded and I’m still living in the aftershock. Every day since has felt like…
Continue ReadingThe day my mother died, everything changed. My mind became a complex mess of the heartbreaking reality of her death…
Continue ReadingMy mom could have died when I was 25, but she didn’t. She was, however, diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, which…
Continue ReadingLosing your mom will wreck you. It breaks you and changes you in ways you never could have imagined. You’ll…
Continue ReadingI remember like it was yesterday: our little boombox radio blasting music as we danced. Her hair bouncing as she…
Continue ReadingEleven years . . . a little over a decade we have been without her. Eleven years of not seeing…
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