The rearrangement of life when survival and health are in doubt is as startling as it is swift. Necessities come into sharper focus. Survival becomes the goal. All else is secondary or inconsequential. When my daughter was diagnosed with a chronic illness four years ago, our priorities changed in an instant. The typical concerns a […]
“She found herself in a world full of men. Watching them slowly destroy all her plans,” –The Angel and the Fool, Broken Bells You can be anything you want baby girl. I tucked a blonde wisp behind her ear and smiled at her. I believed it to my core. My brilliant, stubborn daughter. The world […]
Will they hear the fireworks? The children, shivering under a mylar blanket in a cold cell. Will they hear them? This is America. We are in a place, right now, where we can’t say that our darkest days are in our past. And it feels sick. It feels shocking. Unbelievable. But it’s real. Our country is […]