I can’t tell my story without telling the story of my grandmother Frances. Raised during the Great Depression by her grandmother, Frances’s life was not one of fairytales. She married the love of her life, and brought 5 children into this world. She was faithful In the 1950s, through no fault of her own, Frances …
My daughter Madison and I were talking about the difficulty she sometimes feels in navigating her female friendships. Relationships are always emotionally complex, but for a group of college freshmen girls working to better know themselves, female friendships must seem practically impossible. During our talk, Madison noted that I had come from a different generation-a …
Last year my widowed mother spent most of the year battling and then recovering from breast cancer. During the holiday season, I was fortunate enough to reconnect with my grandmother Frances’s last remaining sibling, my great aunt. It was almost like having Frances there with me. We were all connected by our common love for …
Recently I’ve become an empty nester, and to say that this has been difficult for me would be a massive understatement. I’ve spent most of my adult life consumed with the glory and struggles of motherhood. The countless baseball games and piano lessons kept me so busy that time just slipped through my grasping hands. …
To say that I’m not one for the spotlight would be an understatement. I’m much more comfortable behind the scenes, doing the work and getting my hands dirty. My comfort zone is the quiet stillness of my work. Lately that has all started to change. I think it began with the beginning of Girl Be …
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