Night: is when the demons appear. You don’t realize how much you need sleep until you aren’t getting any. During the day, you can work it out – the sun’s rays give energy, other folk give energy. But it’s at night, when your mind won’t shut off and as soon as it does the baby [...]

My friend and I at our university's Senior Ball, right before graduation, May 2002.

I’ve procrastinated in writing this post because it’s too hard translating the feelings of my heart into words on a page. In the past ten days, my beautiful baby boy was born and my beautiful sister-friend passed away. While I had nine months to prepare for the former, I had only a day to prepare [...]

They say when you have a child, it’s so hard to imagine what life was like before that child entered your life. At this time last week, at precisely this moment, I was a mother of two. Big A and Little A were my kids. That was my mommy persona. I had two kids. It’s [...]

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Pure joy. Nothing but pure joy.

I really want to have this baby. That is all.

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When I was in high school, I managed the track team. I sucked as an actual runner; despite my long legs and slim build, I just was neither fast nor did I have any endurance. I did run for a few months, though, before taking a manager’s job. I remember how hard it was. When [...]

i watch this news with my kids every morning as we eat our breakfast. i understand they may not “get” everything, but i want them to know there is a world out there bigger than them. well, this morning on good morning america, there was a story on the shooting death of trayvon martin. my six [...]

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