Dear Daughter, As you navigate the choppy waters of womanhood (and damn, those are some high, white-capped swells), please, oh please, hear my voice, my love. Hear it, sweet child. Please don’t shrug me off. Hear it ringing through the din, right through these confounding, life-sorting years; right past your indifference, your boredom with me, […]
My Inner Mother
We’ve heard it many times, from experts, and well meaning friends alike: In order to be truly happy in life, we must “listen to our inner child.” As adults, we should follow the whims and the yearnings of the children we once were. The theory, it would seem, is that if we satisfy the cravings of our […]