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, […]
The Prayers Of A Million Mothers
She’s so beautiful! Your new baby girl. What a lovely little bundle of joy. So clean, and sweet. All wrapped up like a burrito. Adorable. Look at her darling pink hat. Her button nose, her tiny hands, her paper thin fingernails. Her squeezable, mushy, precious cuteness. I don’t want to rain on your new baby parade, but I need to […]