When I was pregnant, other women bombarded me with advice, perhaps because that was supposed to be a “joyous” time and people wanted to share in it, but this was different. This was the darker side of womanhood.
I started researching phrases like “sex in your 40s,” “pissed at my family all the time,” and “left boob pain; am I dying?” When that didn’t garner satisfactory answers…
I Had An Abortion In My 40s. I'll Never Forget The Shocking Thing The Doctor Said To Me.
November 20, 2025
Later, I would learn that 59% of abortion patients already have a kid — that the majority of the women who choose the procedure do it so they can better support a child that they already have. That my situation was actually quite common. Since the beginning of time, women…
My Dad Disappeared When I Was A Kid. Years Later, I Got A Letter That Changed Both Our Lives.
November 19, 2025
His letters gave me what I’d been missing during the first 14 years of my life. Every typewritten page, every piece of personal stationery with his left-handed scrawl, managed to fill another gaping hole in my heart with something like love.
When I began writing for my…
I Had An Ominous Fear About My Husband That I Kept Secret For Years. Then It Came True.
November 19, 2025
I’d go into the bathroom of our home office, turn the light on, and start the noisy fan so I’d miss the screech of tires and the impact that I was terrified was coming. Then I’d hear him stroll back in.
He once said, smiling, that he thought I’d like him best…
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I Thought I Knew My Mom. Then I Found A Grainy Polaroid That Forced Me To Reconsider.
November 18, 2025
A few weeks before moving out of my parents’ house for college, I stumbled upon a grainy Polaroid of my mom in her 20s. I stared, dumbfounded, as two questions formed in my mind. First, who was this person? And second ― why didn’t I know her?
The mom I knew threatened…
