By Amber Watson I Search For My Mom in Everything, Especially Christmas
Grief is a funny thing. Sometimes you're able to anticipate the blow, and other times, it hits you in the…
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Mom Wouldn’t Want Me To Just Survive Christmas—She’d Tell Me To Embrace the Joy
To love Christmastime is to love my momma. Everything bright. Everything sweet. Everything happy. She was the embodiment of it…
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By Jessica Urlichs Dear Mom, I Understand Everything Now
Dear Mom, There is so much I didn’t understand back then, but now I do. I never understood why sometimes…
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By Her View From Home I’m Grieving the Mother I Deserved While Loving the One I Was Given
My mother is bipolar. Not as a punchline to a joke, but genuinely, medically diagnosed as bipolar. She has been…
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By Liz Curtis Faria Getting Through the Holidays as a Motherless Daughter
Before my mother died but when she was very sick, I was dropping my son off at daycare. When we…
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By Chelsea Ohlemiller 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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By Kayla Runkel Dear Mom, I’ll Always Be Your Baby…Even When I Have My Own
Dear Mom, Today I came home from the hospital with my brand-new baby boy. As my weak postpartum body hobbled…
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By Angela Anagnost-Repke We Don’t Take Thanksgiving—Or Mom—For Granted Anymore
Five days after my mom’s chemo, my brother, Deno, flew home to Michigan. We were going to celebrate an early…
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Did My Mom Know How Much I Loved Her?
She’s gone. You ache for her, but you will no longer be blessed by her presence. She’s dead, and a…
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By Christie Lynn No Amount of Time Will Fix the Fact That My Mom Isn’t Here
Tomorrow is going to be seven years since my mom has been gone. Saying that out loud seems so surreal…
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By Kristen Brown I Didn’t Expect To Be Mothering My Mother
It’s a bizarre thing to mother your mother. I constantly worry if she is sad, if she feels lonely, and…
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Dear Mom, You’re Gone So a Part of Me is, Too
On April 25, 2018, my world imploded and I’m still living in the aftershock. Every day since has felt like…
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