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Do We Really Want a ’90s Summer?

The year is 2026: we’re inviting thousands of strangers to get ready with us, threatening our own deaths on a lot of different hills and, if…

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Sometimes Healing Doesn’t Look Like Moving On

Outside, the sky hung in a thick, dim slab, like a ceiling over the trees that stood crooked in the wind. Not the fresh spring breeze we’re used to…

Motherhood

This Is How I’m Raising My Sensitive Son

When I was pregnant with my son, everyone warned me of what was to come. “Just you wait,” they’d say with an underlying schadenfreude,…

Motherhood

It’s Time for Us To Start Talking about Menopause

Disclaimer: The information included below is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Menopause.…

Grief, Loss

Now that You’re Gone, I Sit In This Waiting Room Alone

I lay in bed this morning, sweet boy. It is Saturday. Seven of them since you left. Half awake, I turned over and saw Grief staring right at me. She…

Living, Marriage

To the Woman Who Was Betrayed

He promised you a lifetime, a family, safety, and security. You carried life and brought it into this world for him. Even still, in the trenches of…

Kids

He Waited for Me By the Window and It Felt Like Love

Yesterday I went to urgent care. I had a sore throat, and my doctor had no openings. It was super disappointing because I actually had plans in the…

Living

5 Things I’m Learning about 50

When my dad turned 80, he—and we, by default—celebrated all year. My sister made a fantastic, larger-than-life sign of him posing in front of his…

Baby, Motherhood

I Didn’t Know You Were My Last Baby When I Had You

I didn’t know at the time that my last baby would be my last. Those late nights with little sleep. The days that felt so long, yet so full all at…

Marriage

10 Things I Wish I’d Known Before My Marriage Ended

I’m a year and a half into my still-husband filing for a divorce I didn’t see coming (but probably should have), and I’m here to say: hindsight…

Faith

I Lost My Sight at 16—But It Wasn’t the End of My Vision

After my father shot me, I lay in a hospital bed, and my world went dark. I was 16 years old. The injury left me completely blind. But the darkness…

Grief

She Was the Glue That Held Our Family Together

They say you don’t know what you have until it’s gone. I found that to be most true when my grandma passed. Like many grandmas, she was the best.…

Do We Really Want a ’90s Summer?

Sometimes Healing Doesn’t Look Like Moving On

This Is How I’m Raising My Sensitive Son

It’s Time for Us To Start Talking about Menopause

Now that You’re Gone, I Sit In This Waiting Room Alone

To the Woman Who Was Betrayed

He Waited for Me By the Window and It Felt Like Love

5 Things I’m Learning about 50

I Didn’t Know You Were My Last Baby When I Had You

10 Things I Wish I’d Known Before My Marriage Ended

I Lost My Sight at 16—But It Wasn’t the End of My Vision

She Was the Glue That Held Our Family Together

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So God Made a Mother

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So God Made a Mother