Motherhood

Cracks

You're the one I've loved the longest. Longer than your Dad. Longer than your step-Dad. You're the one who taught me your heart can walk outside your chest and you can survive. The one who made me a Mom. The one who makes me laugh.

Motherhood

Gardens

Each season of your life will pass. It will yield seeds to plant. You can grow more pain or you can grow healing. You will repeat this all your life. You will forever be practicing how to choose things that feel make you feel whole. This is being human.

Motherhood

One by One

Back in 2016, I wrote a letter to my daughters. It was just after the Orlando nightclub shooting. I built on it, yesterday and today. You don't realize how big a piece being afraid is part of parenthood. Fear is a piece of our human experience and the way it can drive behaviors is amazing… Continue reading One by One