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Solo Mother

February 11th, 2008

another Valentine, this one to my aunt

Today is the one year anniversary of the death of my aunt, my mother’s sister, my cousin’s mother. When the King of Everything and I decorated the tree this past Christmas, the tree skirt that graced our floor had been made by her hand (and had miraculously survived the diaspora of my belongings when my […]

By christina -- 2 comments

November 24th, 2007

Heartfelt

There have been some big, quiet, oddly painful hurts going around inside me lately. In conversations with men and women who have lost their spouses and are trying to put the pieces back together, to knit some kind of life with the fragments they have left, I have stumbled often upon the gaping hole where […]

By christina -- 2 comments

October 14th, 2007

Crash test mommy in real time

Poking around on the Net found me an extraordinary woman who suddenly became a mother after the utterly unexpected death of her younger sister left a baby born one month prematurely in the hospital…
I don’t know how she did it except that well, she did it the way we all do it.
You just […]

By christina -- 1 comment