Tag: grieving parent

What I Want You to Know on Your Mom’s Birthday

How your mom showed me I had really messed something up was the same way she showed me I had done something remarkably well: she cried. This was also how she showed embarrassment, fear, anxiety, joy, or any of a cluster of emotions that… Continue Reading “What I Want You to Know on Your Mom’s Birthday”

What I Want You to Know About Uvalde

I don’t know how to write this letter to you. There aren’t any words. It keeps happening but nothing happens. All there are are words.