Some people called him “Barefoot Lloyd”. On our small college campus, being the person who walked around barefoot could be a distinguishing feature where names failed. "Oh, you mean that guy who walks around barefoot?" We were both English majors. … [Read more]
A dog and her woman in healing
We found her on a Mississippi country road. Her story began the same way as many country dogs’: one of a litter born of free-range, roaming mutts. My fiance and I were driving back to town from the place where we would soon be married when I saw a … [Read more]
My c-section: At the corner of empowerment and letting go
“Nothing was taken from me.” Those were the first words that came to me when I described my c-section aloud. “I didn't feel pressured into it, and nothing was taken from me.” … [Read more]
Why we marched: Because we refuse to go back
I do not speak up comfortably. Any situation that requires speaking UP and over a powerful voice or strong ideas makes me shaky and feel physically ill. It takes so much strength for me to say those first words that I become an emotion balloon, and … [Read more]
How breastfeeding taught me my first lessons as a mother
I couldn’t wait for milk to arrive. The final weeks of pregnancy, I would stand in the shower or sit back in the bath squeezing around my areolas to extract a little drop of hazy white-tainted fluid. The colostrum collected like the tiniest bit of … [Read more]
This belly held a piece of the universe
"I want to take a family beach trip," I kept telling my husband. It stood for so much more than putting my feet in a large body of water and getting a good tan. Traditions. I was desperate to start traditions. I wanted the different seasons to come … [Read more]
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