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It has been such a source of internal distress for me that my mom has never appeared in one of my dreams. I am going on 7 long years of managing to function…
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I am about to tuck and roll into my seventh Motherless Mother’s Day. The intense, cyclical crush of grief, longing, and loneliness is familiar and expected at this point, but, now, during the…
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Barnes & Noble’s Local Author Event I’ll appearing at a local author signing panel at the Barnes & Noble in Warwick, Rhode Island this weekend. They’ve made sure to have a diverse committee…
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Here’s the press release for When You Lived in My Belly, available for presale now and out August 6, 2019: Popular Parenting Writer Publishes When You Lived in My Belly Mothers of curious…
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Tis the season for holiday parties! It’s time to unearth those Pinterest-worthy recipes and actually make them for friends who are no longer counting calories. It’s time to slip out of dog-hair-covered-leggings and…
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Special thanks to my friends over at Thyroid Survivor Network for sharing an article I wrote about my best friend Jill’s grueling thyroid cancer journey. Thyroid cancer is not the “good cancer.” When you read…
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Like a car showing its age from driving thousands of miles on rough terrain, I have had many starts and stops, fits and sputters, and, yes, breakdowns on my road of grief. I…
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Picture this: When I was young, maybe five or six years old, I was seated at a restaurant with my mom and younger brother, happily scarfing down my favorite meal-of-the-moment. Mid-way through lunch…
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I woke up on Mother’s Day at 6:45 a.m. to a symphony of sneezes well within my personal spray zone. My son went in for a kiss with a messy cold and completely…
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