This is a story of a confused new mom who was in trouble. She was blindsided by the quiet and suffocating loneliness of motherhood’s first year. She was shocked at how, despite thinking she was so busy, in actuality, the days were endless. By 10 a.m. most days she felt despair creeping up around her shoulders, as she […]
For leisurely reading, I gravitate toward dark novels with excessive pain and suffering. American slavery. WWII and the Holocaust. The Dust Bowl. These are topics covered in the books I choose, and my husband has many times found me ugly crying into the pages at midnight. He has often asked why I read books that so […]
This is going to be my most serious post to date. There will probably not be one joke. It is taking quite a bit of courage for me to write this and include my own confessions, but having had these experiences compels me to share them and to help my fellow mommy and daddy friends […]