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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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What do Jessica Simpson and I have in common? It’s not the blonde hair. Pretty sure she was born with hers and I…wasn’t. It’s not our vocal prowess. That girl can seriously sing…
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Flashing back to that incomparable time when my son lived in my belly. I was 37-years-old, an over-the-hill “later mother” who kept doctors’ guessing. I mean, referring to to mine as a “high-risk,…
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I had such a great time chatting with Reading With Your Kids Podcast about my book, “When You Lived in My Belly“. We discussed pregnancy, the (intensely annoying) stork myth, and the second…
Continue readingIt’s mind-numbing to think about all the possibilities that are ushered in by a new decade, if my last one is any indication. In ten short years, I experienced both the best and…
Continue readingDuring the past week alone, my son has twice woken up in the middle of the night, completely traumatized. He has vivid, horrific nightmares of his dad dying (he lost him in 2018,…
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Today is my bonus son’s 12th birthday. It is also the day my beloved mom died. Today is not the date chiseled on her grave stone (November 8, 2013), but my husband knows…
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I call my son a sour patch kid. He can be sour sometimes, but his heart is pure sweetness. As I was changing into comfy clothes after a long day, I noticed a…
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I took an unconventional road to motherhood. The proverbial stork dropped you–a sweet, precocious, creative, smart, and stunning 8-year-old girl on my doorstep first. You rang my doorbell and smiled widely when I…
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According to the CDC, 186 children died from the flu last season. Of those, 80 percent did not receive their flu vaccination. This is a startling and heartbreaking fact many of us…
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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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Share a #FunFact about yourself below and you can win a copy of “When You Lived in My Belly”! I will choose the most intriguing (or outrageous) #FunFact and announce the winner Sunday…
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Today was a typical Monday morning rush, trying to balance a dog who needed walking and a kid who needed to get to school (and, somehow, get myself ready, too)…until something extraordinary happened…
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