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Dear Middle Child, I Still See You

We’ve got a house full of boys: four of them, ages seven and under. We’ve been told they’re the quietest, most well-behaved…

No one talks about the loss that happens when you become an aunt. No one talks about what you lose. What you didn’t intend on losing. No one talks…

This morning something happened that felt so important I wanted to share it with you. Being that you are so young, it most likely will not be a…

Right now, you’re best friends. You beg to come with me when it’s time to wake sissy up from her nap, and her first words every morning are…

It’s half-past nine, an hour or so after the usual bedtime for kids in our home. The house is dark with the exception of the dining room, and…

If I had a magic wand, I would skip March 16th every year from now until forever. On that day in 2014, my family received the call that my younger,…

Charles Dickens’ words certainly resonated with me this year during last year’s surge of graduations. My oldest son graduated with a BFA…

People thought we were having an affair as we sat at the community pool and laughed and hugged and engaged in some seemingly very serious…

Sweet third child, your presence flooded our lives with abundance. The kind of abundance God promises—that pressed down, shaken together, and…

This has been an interesting month, to say the least. When this year started, I never could have imagined what 2020 would hold. I didn’t know that…