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To the Brotherless Boy

You are just a toddler now, not yet two, and the second born of four children. When I found out you were to have another sister—making you the only…

When I was expecting my second baby, people sometimes looked at my firstborn, a daughter, and told me, “Now you just need a boy . . . then…

He knew you would need someone to run barefoot through fields with and make mud pies with. Someone to run around the sprinklers with in the hot…

Dear daughter, Do you know how lucky you are to have sisters? I yearned for a sister when I was a little girl. Cried, in fact, when my baby…

We needed to get our day started. Really. It was the beginning of a new homeschool week, and the morning was crawling closer and closer towards the…

When my second daughter was born my older daughter was turning 4. I thought it was so challenging to have two children four years apart. I was…

In the aftermath of my sister passing away, I have long struggled with the fear of who was going to be next. As the oldest of five kids, I have…

Imagine a peaceful night after coming home from a fun mother’s day at your grandparents, only to find that very soon a life or death situation…

It all started when we were young girls. We are sisters in a tight knit family. Back then our family chalked it up to just…

For longer than I care to admit, I subscribed to the notion that “rape culture” was a myth. There was part of me that thought it…