Stop Acting Like Something is Wrong with my Daughter.
The question is, how will she, my daughter, learn to function as an adult if she doesn't do all the things deemed normal for a 14-year-old girl?
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Creating a New Legacy for the Love of My Daughter.
I had a deep yearning to break this legacy when I became pregnant with my daughter. I was fiercely committed to her being valued, honored and seen.
A Letter to the Daughter I Chose Not to Have.
And so, dear wisp of energy that is my daughter, I want you to know that I think of you often. I imagine how old you’d be, what you’d be doing in your life.
Risk It All: A Love Letter.
She has moments when she is so passionate about something, her dark eyes glisten with intensity. I swear I would risk my life for her convictions in those moments, because put simply, I just believe in her.
Freeing My Inner Weirdo.
I've spent my whole life building an infrastructure that allowed me to fit in and be acknowledged by the world in some weird way. But at what cost?
Mother: the Hardest Hill a Daughter Must Climb.
I couldn’t love you without judgment the way every little girl, daughter, beautiful woman, child needs to be loved, because I was so busy judging and not loving myself.
Eulogy to the Living.
It is natural, when a precious life fades, that we ask the person’s age. And with increased age comes the finale.
5 Love Lessons I Learned from My Marriage to a Gay Man.
Sending my daughters, all of our daughters, out into the world as women empowered by their sexuality is the treasure I have found beneath the ruins of my marriage.
A Note to My Daughter.
I wanted to write a few words of guidance for my daughter, and although this letter began as something solely for her, as I reread it, I realized that it's a letter for all of us -- young, old, daughter, son, mother, father... human. Take what you like, leave the rest behind.
Slow Stanzas of Release Through the Stages of Grief: A Triptych. {poetry}
Your daughter remembers you
Holding you in her heart
That leads the way to where we are today