When Numbness Melts
The Urban Mom Numbness never arrives like a hurricane.It doesn’t slam doors open, it doesn’t make noise.Numbness comes…
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Mesmerized
Your light fell over melike a quiet spell;no thunder, no warning,just the soft unravelingof everything…
Read moreTwo Women Inside Me
Inside me live two women,like two sisters who never learned to share the same room.…
Read moreInvisible Threads
You came into the world 15 years after me, like an undeserved gift placed in…
Read moreStop Emoticoning, Start Emoting: The Courage to Speak in Full Size
“Stop emoticoning and start emoting.” I got used to masking my feelings in small, round,…
Read moreThe Autumn Fruit of Me: When My Inside Tells a Different Story
One autumn morning, I found something that looked like a watermelon. I looked closely and…
Read moreWhen Faith Meets Silence: Reclaiming My Voice from Misused Scripture
I sat so many times in the pew, Sunday after Sunday, listening to those words…
Read moreThe Part of Me That Never Left: A Story of Sisterhood and Quiet Love
When I left for boarding school at fourteen,I didn’t know I was taking a part…
Read moreOlder Than My Mother
In my mind, my mother is always forty years old.In November, I’ll turn forty-five.I’m older…
Read moreRapunzel and the Mirrors: The Day She Freed Herself from the Gaze
From the tower window, the world looked perfect.Green rolled endlessly toward the horizon, the air…
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