Happy Mother’s Day
I’ve written essays about my father. It took me a long time after he died to write about him, and the first essay I wrote made him sound perfect, like a middle-aged James Dean (cool) with a John Wayne...
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Mother’s Day 2003. I was heavily pregnant with our eighth baby. When I entered the kitchen that morning I was greeted by a sink full of dishes and some homemade cards on the table, a table that...
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I wasn’t sure how I was going to spend this Mother’s Day, the first without my mother. For many, many years Mother’s Day meant me asking for some time alone as a “gift.” Depending upon my husband’s...
View ArticleAnother Holiday Approaching…Without
I wrote this in February of 2010, during the time I was working on my true love story chronicling David’s journey through cancer and the revitalization of our marriage: “100% of marriages end.” This is...
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