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A New Hope
on pain, power and diverging from patriarchy
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How to Host a 50th Birthday Party for Your Dead Husband with Whom you Have a Complicated Relationship
my relationship with my late husband is always going to be complicated which is why I'll never stop celebrating him and everything else that is also…
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it's okay if you're a little bit jealous that all of your friends are on adventures right now
but also... here's a recipe for Vacation eggs.
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for the mothers who are fathers, too.
because today is also yours
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"I am a collection of dismantled almosts"
on marriage of mother to child, the let-go and other thoughts; one year later
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if we all went back to another time I will love you over
portraits of four different selves from four different audiences in four different decades (Belle and Sebastian, 1999-2024)
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from "pick-me" to misandrist to grown-up
or how I learned to make friends with good men in middle-age.
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this is a love letter to all the mothers in the Children's Hospital ER at 11:11 pm on a Tuesday night
and also everywhere else
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secret and not-so-secret smokers
I see you, mom in the stop and drop line, not giving a fuck and I salute you with a lighter extended out the sunroof. FREEBIRD!
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the loneliness of the long distance driver
(or how traffic is a poet)
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1. the year I became a sports mom
for the love of the bench-huddled mothers and the children we cheer on together
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"don't worry. it will grow"
the braid turns one.
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