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My First Mother’s Day

Last year, I would have never believed that I would be celebrating my first Mother’s Day as a new mom. Now six weeks postpartum, I feel like my motherhood is in the probationary period. I still feel like Mother’s Day is reserved for my mother and grandmother—not a millennial mom like me. I earned it […]

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A Confession Of Unconventional Love

. . . Continued Part IV When I got home from my trip out East, I felt different. This trip had really changed me–in more ways than one. Maybe I really had fallen in love, but I didn’t realize my life was about to change forever. As much as I wanted to ignore it, my […]

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To Halifax and Back

Part III After what had been a magical camping weekend in P.E.I., I had no desire to leave. “I’m going to marry you someday,” he said with a country twang in his voice to me the night before. At the concert, he introduced me to his group of friends as his fiancĂ©e. I had played […]