I stopped working a few months before my oldest was born. That was thirteen years ago. So when our trio came five years later, I was still a stay-at-home mom. For over a decade I was the primary caregiver to our children, getting breaks when my husband (thank God for him) took over every weekend,…
Romancing the Beta Hero (or why we date Mr. Alpha but marry Mr. Beta)
My first book boyfriend is Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy–brooding, handsome, acerbic, and of course a single-man in possession of a great fortune. Who wouldn’t love to have the love of Mr. Darcy? So started a long love affair with the alpha hero who was assertive, aggressive, basically everything that is awesome in a man at the…
Empty Arms
My sons spent the first three months of their lives in the sterile environment of a hospital. Whereas, babies their age would have still been happily swimming in the warm environment of their mothers’ wombs, mine came too early and had to learn to do things too soon–from breathing, to regulating their own temperature. As surreal…
International Women’s Day
Today is International Women’s Day. But millions of women in the world don’t even know that a day has been dedicated to them. These are the women who, ironically, need such a day the most. They are the most marginalized sector of our society. Women who are poor, uneducated, persecuted, used as weapons of war,…
Faces of Survivors
The statistics are staggering, and heartbreaking. According to Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network (RAINN) an American is sexually assaulted almost every two minutes. See https://rainn.org/statistics. Which means by the time you are done reading this blog post, at least one child, woman or man would have been violated in the worst possible way. Lady…
