I am braver and stronger than I’ve ever been and as this virus continues to rage on, as our country sets out to do so much work that needs to be done, I want my kids to reflect back one day on this time of their lives and think, we made it through ok, because we had one tough mother.
After whittling an essay collection for three years, I was mystified by the ending. How was I supposed to finish a book about romantic love when I’d never retained it?
He isn't grieving but she imagines him grieving. Maybe he's grieving. She dreams he is talking to others about her as if she is dead, though they are only divorcing.
Four years have passed since I lost Emily for the last time. She would be proud of me if she's not drinking. My religious friends say if you pray enough, heaven is an open bar.
Nobody would know that I had miscarried my first baby and had chosen to keep this information to myself as a way to cope and the memory still haunts me. So when asked, it was as if lightning struck.
Extending deeper for many women and girls, the crux of period poverty is caused by the long-standing cultural stigma that menstruating women are dirty.
