As long as I can remember, "leg stuff" as been a topic of conversation and controversy with my mom and me.
body
race
I didn't mind living in rural Tennessee until I had two black children.
family drama
They blamed me for tearing the family apart by calling 911 that night in August.
infertility
Fostering is completely different than adoption, which is completely different than pregnancy. All are wonderful, but different. Remember that.
family drama
My momentary shock upon finding out that my room was a camper trailer in the backyard, quickly turned into relief that I would be occupying a completely different living space than the stains and the cocaine.
hpv
His cancer had been caused not by smoking, but by HPV that had been lying dormant for decades.
ihtm contest
When I wiped, I saw a single white worm on the toilet paper. Like any sane person would do, I freaked out, sobbing hysterically at 5 am.
ihtm contest
Even though the alcoholic in my life has been gone for years, the disease still lingers. I’ve locked it out of the house and it sits on the front porch waiting patiently to sneak back in.
ihtm contest
I threw up for three straight weeks. Multiple times a day. All day. Every day.
ihtm contest
I think about my brother all the time, question how I could have acted differently, what I could have done. Was I too selfish?
ihtm contest
I've wrestled with the idea of that horrible person being my father, someone who, for the first part of my life, made sure we had a home, food and even vacations.
music
I am going to be 34 in a few months and I still have not seen all of Thriller in one viewing.
cleaning
Sometimes it really boggles my mind that I am somebody's mother and therefore am culturally expected to nag members of my household to keep our living spaces clean.
bathrooms
As a solo parent to a son, the logistics of peeing in public restrooms presents an ongoing quandary.
mothers
I would never know my mother. What I mean is I would never really know her as I would if she had lived and grayed and grew to view me as an equal.
family drama
I wholeheartedly recommend hypnosis for childbirth (and migraines, and stress, and dental work, for that matter).
mental illness
My world with her was a twilight zone. I never knew what to expect from one moment to the next.
illness
I couldn’t tell you how old I was when I learned to read or when we stopped practicing cursive in school, but I can describe the view from the upper floor of the Columbia-Presbyterian hospital parking garage in almost perfect detail.
moving
My husband is all about carefully wrapping and boxing things, and I'm prone to throwing stuff in the back of the car, unboxed and unlabeled, and then being heartbroken when something breaks.
family drama
It started small. Forgetting words, getting turned around when driving, repeating stories. Initially, it seemed like stress -- and my mom was very good at playing it off.
family drama
I am not the mothery type. But I am the type who will ferociously defend the right of an awesome four-year-old kid whom I love to wear whatever the hell he wants.
marriage
And while we're on the subject, is it SO HARD to just throw out the empty milk container instead of leaving it on the counter? The garbage can is RIGHT THERE.
