Confession: I don’t know much about poetry. When I write a poem, I put together words I like. That is all. Imagine this poem spoken over a changing table in that moment of weird realization when you wonder how on earth this human being, with her knowing eyes, arrived in the world fully formed. She
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I heard a story in church recently about a teen girl who had an unplanned pregnancy and thought the baby would ruin her life. When she told her grandma, a devout Catholic woman, about the pregnancy, she thought her grandma would be upset. But her grandma just said, “Whenever God wants to change the world,
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People ask me how being a mom has changed my writing, and the short answer is I don’t know yet. I know being a mom is changing me. I look at my daughter, and I can’t describe the emotions she stirs in me with her wide-open eyes like and chubby cheeks, like a Precious Moments
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I haven’t been sleeping well lately. And no, I can’t blame it on Annalise. She has her okay nights and her excellent nights, but generally she lets me have plenty of sleep. Annoyingly, I am doing this to myself. I lie awake nights, trying not to wake Ivan on the bed beside me, thinking about
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She sleeps. I love how she throws her arms up over her head…she makes sleep look sooo good. I love watching her face when she is falling asleep, marvel at how she moves in half a second’s time from a red face, scrunched-up nose, and a mouth wailing her frustration to a look of utter
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