Tag: hope
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For the Women Who Came Before
As I sit here and weep for all the women who came before me, I find myself needing to write this post. Let me be clear…I do not weep for their loss (although there are so many wonderful women we could use on the planet right now). I weep in gratitude for their tenacity and…
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Not for Nothing
Trigger warning: This post contains discussions of suicide and other tender things. This is also going to be a bit long…consider yourself warned 😉 I spent my 16th birthday in a mental hospital for trying to kill myself. It was not the first time. It was not the last time. Since I am writing this,…
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A Recipe for Hope
It had been about 15 years since I’d seen Angus. Still not sure what I’d done to make my son so angry, I always baked a cake for his birthday. This year, as always, I was baking his favorite. Hoping…always hoping that this year he’d come home and there would be his favorite cake and…
