Open Letter To The Children I’ll Never Have (Daughter) *

My darling daughter,

I never had the words. When you were born, Jesus, I was frightened. Not because you were a girl, heavens no. But because the doctors told us you almost didn’t make it. Premature and…

Open Letter To The Children I’ll Never Have (Son) *

My brave son,

Someday, I’ll be pushing up daisies somewhere and you’ll be a man. You have a good name and reputation. Protect them fiercely like a mother hen guards her brood against wolves. The world is a big…

Writing on Medium When You’re New to Medium

An outsider’s perspective

A little backstory for you… I found Medium a few weeks ago, and since then I’ve been consumed with it. Before a few weeks ago, I’d never heard of it (I’m uncool), but my husband Marvin…

Letter to a Recent Ex

A final gesture of love. “Marie” is his ex-wife. Six months into our relationship, he moved cross continent. We ended our relationship six months after the move.

Dear One,

A Voting Guide and Open Letter to Millennial Voters

Dear Millenials,

As a Millennials myself, I wanted to write this. This is an election year which makes this even more important, but I’d write this eventually anyways. 2016 is an important year, but the points…