real, raw motherhood
My husband’s father just passed away. He had been married 65 years. He had 4 children, 5 grandchildren and 1 great-grand child. What a great legacy! He would have been 84 next month and though it’s still sad, it’s a lot easier to say goodbye to someone who’s had a long productive life. Unfortunately death…
There are only two sure things in life: death and taxes. Most of us are painfully aware of taxes and plan carefully around them, yet most of us turn a blind eye to our mortality. We live as if we were eternal. We spend our days as if they were unlimited. Death has been on…
She’s dead. The woman who birthed me and raised me but couldn’t love me. The woman who should have been my safe place but wasn’t; who should have been my refuge but will never ever be. She’s dead. The woman who was my world when I was a child but couldn’t make space for me…