By Brandy Black Nine years ago, Sophia, my eldest daughter, came into this world and suddenly I was a mother. The journey to motherhood wasn’t an easy one. It came with 3 years of unexplained fertility, stress, tears, and anger, until suddenly my journey changed, and I was pregnant. I fought to be this little […]
By: Amber Leventry My daughter will be five in a couple of weeks, though lately I’m convinced she will be turning 15. Door slamming, screaming, name calling, declarations of injustice and her dislike for me and her other mama have made me wonder where we went wrong as parents. What happened to our sweet baby […]
By: Amber Leventry A little while ago I wrote a post admitting that, while seemingly random and ridiculous, I love the simplicity of my daughter’s definition of what makes her happy, at least through the lens of a child’s camera. I also admitted I have a lot of time at home with my twin toddlers, […]
By: Shannon Ralph “Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which has labored to give birth to the other. The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and […]
By: Danny Thomas A lot of my blogs start with a train of thought during a ride in the car by myself, often, early in the morning which rarely happens these days. sometimes, I remember something that I thought of earlier in the week. Or recall that Jen said, “you should blog about that…” Usually […]
By: Danny Thomas Dear Maya, Today I walked to the end of the street, to your bus stop 5 minutes early, then walked home. Yesterday you wanted to walk home alone. I don’t know what to do today. We didn’t talk about it this morning. It’s hard. Watching you grow, letting it happen (as if […]
