I’ve been thinking about this topic ever since I saw those two life-changing lines. How have I changed this time around? Who am I now? I could say I’m the same person I was five years ago during my first pregnancy but that would be a lie. I am absolutely not the same person. I …
I wonder if anyone can sense just how excited I am I pondered on the train. I couldn’t wipe the big goofy smile off my face. Excitement fizzed inside me like a shaken bottle of sparkling wine. It was my first day of commuting by train to my new job and I felt like a …
I mulled it over. Was I really being negative? It didn’t feel like I was being negative yet the person across from me clearly felt very differently. I tried again. “It’s not that I don’t think he’ll ever speak, I’ve just stopped expecting it to happen. I’m not going to obsess over it anymore”. “But …
How did we get back here?How did we find ourselves in this hell again?What are we doing wrong? In the hollow hours in the dead of night, these thoughts began to emerge. Two hours into a non-stop scream fest with no end in sight, my mind had started to unravel. In the cold harsh light …
Today my heart hurts. It hurts for my son and the world that we live in. One where disabled people are neither considered worthy nor important. Now that the tears have dried up, the anger has set in. Let me explain. I spend a lot of time alone with my son. Finding activities that are …
