How to Help is a series of thoughtful and practical reader submissions. If you would like to submit a “How to Help” post for consideration, please contact me. This guest post is by Erin Adams. We look at each other. Tired eyes. Tremendous love and sorrow mingling together. We both somehow know it is time. We ring […]
"I'm scared," I murmur again, leaning over the cream bath tub, eyes closed. My lips are red. My hair is damp, curls against my forehead. My hazel eyes open momentarily, but the room is a haze - blurry wooden bedpost, blurry faces. The contraction comes and I grab hold of two hands - one is […]
How to Help is a series of thoughtful and practical reader submissions. If you would like to submit a "How to Help" post for consideration, please contact me. This guest post is by Darcie Maranich. What I most remember about being sixteen and pregnant is the wayward looks from strangers. I remember the downcast eyes or […]
Know anyone who is exhausted or discouraged? Think of the man on what-seems-like a perpetual job hunt. The new mother with an infant on her shoulder. The college student who hovers between uncertainty and confidence about his future. The high school girl who is trying to break out of her cocoon. The ten-year-old who lost […]
We promised to only say good things. There in the half-lit restaurant. Leaning back against wooden seats in a booth. We were college students, not at all frightened of forever. A diamond glistened on my left hand. On yellow lined notepads, we scribbled out what mattered. It's been one of the hinges of our relationship […]
As the mother of three young daughters, it often dawns on me that one day soon they will be heading out the door with keys in hand. Here are ten things I want to tell them...to tell all teenage girls. 1. Read. I hereby grant you permission to stay up past your bedtime with a […]