For two years, my husband and I engaged in an unsuccessful journey to expand our family. After moving across the country with an opportunity to start fresh, we decided to live without children.
Mother’s Day & Matriarchs
This blog post is coming to you from an adorable coffee shop about half a mile from my house. “Exposure therapy” is good, and probably necessary this many years on. So here I am in public, among children and strollers…
here and gone [poem]
I did not want to bring Grief into this house. She follows me though, small bare feet pattering up the concrete stairs. I don’t realize she’s followed me in until later, when I find her hiding under the bed. She…
Making peace with Mother’s Day
Earlier this week, my husband made the decision that we were not going to church today. I was totally on board with this, and very happy that I did not have to make the decision and the argument to go…
BONUS POST: Narratives we tell ourselves
One of the most important things we are able to do as humans that set us apart from the rest of the animal kingdom is reflect. We can look into the past and remember in order to make the present…
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MPM 2.0: mercy unmasked 