Guest Posts, Self Care
Mine Alone
The desire for a place of my own to write has been with me for as long as I can remember.
January 17, 2022Latest Posts
On Being Human.-
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Grief, Guest Posts
Babyland
While I had been wandering through row after row trying to cover as much ground as possible, there was a young couple in the cemetery who had stayed in the same general area, hugging each other as they cried.
January 6, 2022 -
Guest Posts, Mental Health
Letting Go of the Why
I decided that I would try the ketamine therapy. I had nothing left to lose by trying it, and everything to lose if I didn’t.
January 2, 2022 -
Guest Posts, Self Image
Of Delicate Girls and Frozen Yogurt
A weekly massive frozen yogurt pie, topped with whipped cream, might have been excessive. But my twenty-year-old son, home from college, and my other two teenagers bearing their own disappointments, demanded comfort at the start of the shut down in March 2020.
December 29, 2021 -
Guest Posts, Self Image, Self Love
The Breast of Me
I had breasts. They lived on my chest. But I didn’t mind them. They were mine, but they were not me.
December 23, 2021 -
Family, Guest Posts, memories
Future Past
I’ve been craving just one good beach day all summer, nothing to do but lie in the sun and gaze at the peaceful horizon. There’s something hopeful about looking out at the sea, as though you can see the past and the future, all there in the shimmering expanse of blue.
December 18, 2021 -
Guest Posts, memories, Trauma
Beyond The Haunting
I’m not the same kind of midwife my aunties were. But I’ve learned how to birth certain things. How to take hurt and transmute it into something different.
August 17, 2021 -
Guest Posts, parenting, parents
Driving With Mom
The plan was to take her to a restaurant for dinner and then borrow her car to drive to the summer cottage where the backdrop is stuffed in a trunk in her bedroom. But I can’t leave her this way.
August 15, 2021 -
Family, Guest Posts, memories
Four Shots: Looking for Signs of a Life
The final shot you scanned that day shows a tall glass lamp with a dark lampshade crowned by a belt of white ribbon. The lamp offers zero illumination.
August 14, 2021 -
Fiction, Fiction Fridays, Friendship, Guest Posts
Yoga Pants
The moms in the clique were into vacationing in the same places. Not necessarily together, but they chose the same places. I overheard them talk about this at pickup.
August 13, 2021 -
Guest Posts, pandemic, Relationships
Building Mom A Bridge: How To Cross Over Seas and Pandemics
So aside from sending my mom pizza dinners, Amazon gifts, and Facetiming regularly, I needed a more meaningful way to reach her. What about writing together? I thought.
August 12, 2021 -
Guest Posts
The Hunt For Happiness
Experts in the mental health field emphasize that the solution to despair can be found in several areas but that social connections and a sense of purpose are key.
August 11, 2021 -
Guest Posts, Mental Health
Frostbite
By August, I can already tell this winter will be far too long. The sky itself is as hollow as the space in my chest.
August 10, 2021 -
Abuse, Guest Posts, healing
What I Didn’t Know
I didn’t know that I should feel good in my home. I didn’t know that I wasn’t mentally ill. I didn’t know that I wasn’t ugly.
August 9, 2021
