Why I’m Smiling
I smile because I’ve been lost.
To My Lady Friends: The Promises I Can Keep
We used to scribble them in heavy yearbooks. We wrote elongated promises of endless summers and forever friendships, all laced with the hopeful assurance that we’d never change.
What An Abuser Really Looks Like
We didn’t look like an abused family.
He didn’t look like an angry, abusive man.
What My Mother Taught Me About Fathers
My mother, through violent nights and lonely days, taught me more about fathers than her husband ever did. I looked to her – trapped in a cycle that made her feel too worthless or powerless or insignificant to leave – and admired all the things a father should be.
What It Means When You Say, ‘I’m Hot…For A Mom’
The overall societal sexualization of women, to me, is fascinating.
I Don’t Thank My Partner For Helping Me Parent
Why do we – as mothers – feel the need to pat our partners on the back for doing what can only be described as their job?
I’m Not The Best Mom (And Neither Are You)
Yes, mothers – hell, women – should support one another; regardless of their differences in faith, friends, parenting and overall life choices.
Thinking About Life And How Ridiculous And Simple It Is To Change It (For Better Or For Worse)
Have you ever sat and pondered the comical fickleness of human life?
Why I Couldn’t Look
It was because only one child was alive.
How To Support The Transgender Person In Your Life
It just, is. Whether you understand it or not.