Dear Single Mama, I see you doing everything – literally everything – with all your heart and all your will… Photo by Erica of EBC Photos Nursing all night or warming up bottles. Doing each diaper change, outfit swap, kitchen cleaning, toilet scrubbing, meal prepping and cooking, lunch box packing, dog walking and pooper-scooping (little human(s) and fury …

I’ve spent the last 3 years building a wall, brick by brick, layer by layer, lathering on the mortar extra thick to make sure the cold or danger wouldn’t creep through a crack, or that a brick wouldn’t fall out exposing the outside world aka fears and judgement and hostility. I vowed to myself to …

[Pre-Chorus] ‘Cause you brought the flames and you put me through hell I had to learn how to fight for myself And we both know all the truth I could tell I’ll just say this is I wish youfare well  [Chorus] I hope you’re somewhere praying, praying I hope your soul is changing, changing I …

When your boat is rocked, adjust the sails and try to navigate to smoother seas If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the past year, it’s that life is unpredictable, change is often unanticipated, difficult, and terrifying, but that every slowly closing or slammed door leads to a new journey, a new beginning, and a …