“My ex-husband and I are divorced, but we are still a family. The concept of a ‘divorced family’ seems like an oxymoron, but it’s how
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“‘I’m so sorry, there’s no heartbeat.’ That’ll be a line that will stay with me for the rest of my life. Anyone who’s had a
“’I don’t know how to say this but it’s malignant, you have breast cancer.’ These are the words that often replay in my head from
“I’m going to lose her. I heard a noise from the bathroom. The bathroom where my daughter had been happily singing the ABC song, and
“My birth mother’s name is Angela. I thought I’d go to my grave not knowing who she was. But I met her for the first
“I get it. It’s just small talk. It shouldn’t matter, and it certainly shouldn’t have me up at 3 a.m. sobbing. But I cannot help
“Have you ever felt a moment of your life when you think: I am the happiest I could ever have dreamed of…happier than anything my
“You know those rare occasions in life when God unexpectedly blesses you out of the blue? Those times where your life changes forever? I have
“Fall of 2016 was when I first started noticing more hair than usual falling out on my brush. I always had healthy, long, dark brown
“I wish I could say my childhood was whimsical and wonderful, or even that I miss those carefree days of youthful, blissful, ignorance. While other