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I Will Love You For A Thousand Years And A Thousand More
I am a writer unable to write since the death of my daughter. As much as I try to force the words to come, they are so interlaced with pain and grief that they stick on my fingers and won’t pass...
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There Are No Tears For You
This morning I buckled down to go through all of the court papers, emails and bullshit of the divorce settlement that has dragged on for two years as my ex sporadically hires an attorney to file...
View ArticleRemembering Alana
I remember the night before Alana’s birth. Two year old Sarah snuggled in bed with me when a thought hit me so hard it was like someone narrating my life announced, “This is the last time there...
View ArticleDomestic Violence – The Shame is Not Yours
I left my home state in 2013 after a marriage marred by emotional and verbal abuse escalated to the threat of physical abuse. There is no more sobering realization than accepting that the...
View ArticleRest Easy Mom and I Hope You Can Be Soft Now.
When I was 16 and suffering my first broken heart, my mother didn’t gather me into a hug and tell me everything would be alright. Instead she told me life wasn’t fair. For her, it wasn’t. An only...
View ArticleThe Heart Wants What the Heart Wants, Til it Doesn’t
Valentine’s Day reminds me of all that is wrong with love. At the impossibly long-ago age of 24, I’d decided that love, marriage and children wasn’t in the cards for me. I witnessed the tumultuous...
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