Bare with Me
Holding others, while being held. Memoirs + Guidance on Love, Freedom and Aloneness.
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What do I have to offer you? (opens the original)
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Note: This was written in the thick of it - while I was caregiving for my mom through her cancer journey. She passed a year ago this month. I’m sharing it now because the shape of the experience is beginning to become visible in ways that I couldn’t quite see while inside it.I feel lost as a caregiver. Everyday I don’t know if I’m coming or going, if I’m doing this caregiving thing right. Everyday I fumble and choose frustration and quick tempers over sincerity, empathy and care. Every night I c
Motherhood Gave Me a Son. It Also Gave Me Back My Friends. (opens the original)
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I’m 3 months into motherhood, and I write this as I just finished channeling my own mother - cooking chicken in the oven, curry goat and rice and peas. I’m trying to master cooking 2 proteins and a carb every Sunday like my mother had so I don’t need to step foot back in the kitchen again until Wednesday or Thursday. My sweet baby boy is sleeping. My dad is at church soon to arrive once his service is over to get some dinner since he can cook but doesn’t love to cook, and my husband is helping h
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