Grief, Guest Posts, motherhood
October 4, 2019
What Grief May Come
It could be hours, days or even weeks, and in my dreams I always forget. It’s my fault, and I didn’t do enough.
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Guest Posts, No Bullshit MotherhoodWhy I’ve Stopped Reading Parenting Magazines
The pictures and the stories in the magazines and on carefully curated social media accounts are supposed to inspire us mamas.
October 2, 2019Share this:
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Guest Posts, Mental Health, SurvivingGrab Life by It’s Horns and Don’t Let Go
Of course like most marriages we had financial troubles but it wasn’t until Labor Day weekend in 2017 my world came crashing down around me.
September 30, 2019Share this:
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Guest Posts, MarriageFinding Forgiveness in the Cheating
He placed his hand on my thigh. His touch was subtle, loving, foreboding. I gazed into my glass, lamenting its emptiness. His eyes penetrated my cheek and he said: “I slept with a twenty-six-year-old girl in Vegas.”
September 27, 2019Share this:
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Current Events, Guest PostsSerendipitous Endurance At the End of the Anthropocene
Here we are again, I thought to myself as Notre Dame’s iconic spire crumpled into ash like a spent stick of incense, glowing orange at its dying core. Another casualty in the anthropocene.
September 24, 2019Share this:
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depression, Guest Posts, No Bullshit MotherhoodThe Intruder
Being a parent is sometimes harder than we like to admit, and being a new parent is extra difficult in that there is no established norm for daily activities. It is all a learning process.
September 22, 2019Share this:
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Friendship, Guest Posts, motherhood, No Bullshit MotherhoodWhat We Remember: Epistolaries To Our Daughters
I no longer remember the details. I just remember walking through the house surveying the damage and marveling how much could unravel in one month’s time.
September 15, 2019Share this:
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Guest Posts, Writing & The BodyLife Cycles
The last two times I went off birth control, we made a baby in a matter of minutes, but this time I’m becoming fertile again for no reason other than my nostalgia for natural rhythms.
September 9, 2019Share this:
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Guest Posts, RelationshipsNotes From A Sentimental Hoarder
Eventually, I’d get bored with my life, play into her feelings, and repeat. You’d think I wouldn’t be surprised when she began to pull away, but you’d be wrong.
August 30, 2019Share this:
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Guest Posts, HeroesPlease See Me
I’m 17. I never grow up. My brain is broken.
August 23, 2019Share this:
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Guest Posts, RelationshipsMeasuring Worth: Notes From A Surgeon’s Wife
To the general public, a surgeon’s family (resident or attending) has an easy life, cushioned by wealth and its conveniences. The truth is, when I hear that overused phrase about worth, I want to scream.
August 21, 2019Share this:
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Guest Posts, suicide
Chester Bennington is Dead
Chester Bennington is dead; he was 41 and I am 40 and I still cannot believe we live in a world where suicide is such a thing.
August 19, 2019Share this:
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Guest Posts, Mental HealthCall Me What You Will
I am one of them, a “mentally ill monster,” and let’s be honest it isn’t just Trump that uses that language.
August 18, 2019Share this:
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Grief, Guest Posts, self-loathingFrom Cutter to Mother
“Years later, I realize now, my memoir-writing was selfish. In writing about my childhood, and grief, I claimed myself. I took my own life without ending it. “
August 16, 2019Share this:
