Each year my children’s’ eyes become wider and more skilled at interpretation, for every year that I age, they do too.
Sometimes there is value in letting you vent, feel powerful, and moving forward. You’re fucking welcome.
That echo can forever live in the darkness; some messages were never intended to be received, the delay too great.
In that exhale, the feeling of defeat escaped with it - a breathy fuuuuuuuck of sorts.
These pieces, I tear off willingly, proudly, defining myself by the beauty of my imperfect and exhausted soul.
A long time ago, we would meet halfway, feet on the earth, shoes in hand, and walk together.
It’s been a minute.
Too many options can create confusion, the freezer is simply a microcosm of our larger society in all of its excess and waste.
I needed to fill some time as I watched the ambulance’s GPS tick, tick, tick along my computer screen, towards her residence.
But a little man? Where would I place my focus? How could I guarantee to bring out the good man that lies inside of this tiny human?
Use language authentically but know that when you are authentic to the moment, that has the potential to sting, scare, or scar.
Decipher between the kind of love that pulls too much from you, leaving you drained, and the kind that is a steady, constant feeling of comfort. Choose the latter.
I wept because my mother’s fears were not unfounded. Some men will take what they want. He wanted to take from me, and I was lucky.
The moon pulls you in too many directions - you are water.
But you, Sweet Boy, you closed that gap.
Catapulted back into grief, I find connections, I will forever link it to my loss. I failed dinner and I failed her.
These are my girls, the ones who invite me and the ones that I invite – all of us up for a challenge, all of us in a habit of saying yes.
Each first for him, a last for me
Take a deep breath, so you might be able to blow out all 40 of those candles.
Push your body to the limits, and then push a little bit farther. You are capable of so much more than you think, sweet girl.