Twenty-one years ago (yesterday) I married a boy. It rained in the pre-dawn hours of our wedding day. It’s good luck, they had said of the rain. Do I need luck? I wondered. By the time we arrived at the church for our early morning wedding, the suns rays had eliminated any sign of the...
I was 32 years old when I first tried it. Eleven years ago. I had two kids. I was working as a counselor. It wasn’t a New Year’s Resolution. In fact, rebel that I am, I began on December 29th. The picture is titled: Day1/365. The caption says: Giving the 365 a shot. Nervous and...
Before you were born I heard a similar story from many mothers who had gone before me. The story went something like this: The instant you hear that baby cry, you will feel it–a kind of love you’ve never experienced before. Thinking about it now, I see the pressure in such statements. The assertion that,...
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