I missed our annual Easter traditions this year – I missed them a lot. But being in lockdown made me realize it isn’t the church services or

Poverty, they boldly assert, is ultimately broken relationships.

It was perfect. It was dark purple and covered with unicorns and star constellations and galaxies. My daughter’s two favourite things...

I wouldn’t waste time. I would make more art. I wouldn’t be content to eat my fill everyday while people around me went without food. I...

When the flowers are all neatly tucked in their vases, the brunches cleared away, the massages paid for, the platitude-plastered mugs,...

I have a vivid memory of a conversation with my mom when I was a teenager. I was probably about 16. She was talking to me about...

Turn water on. Get wet as fast as possible. Turn water off. Shampoo hair and soap body. Turn water on. Rinse as fast as possible. Turn...

Yesterday I opened my BBC news app to see the horrifying headline, "Sandy Hook victim's father apparently took his own life". Will this...

Sometimes grief hits you out of nowhere. Smacks you right in the chest like a ball out of left field. It’s a boring old Tuesday morning...

I feel like an illegitimate mom because I have only one child. I want to wear a sign around my neck that says, “If the first child hadn’t...

You hit a wall around week six. The rush of sorting, selling, storing, and packing; visas, tickets, credit cards, and documents; airplane...

For too long, I’ve been in hiding, hiding behind who you say I am and am not hiding within the crowd who needed me to be this or that...

What if I just loved you? Didn’t try to change you didn't try to make you love me back didn’t worry about being taken advantage of being ...

Have you ever noticed how Zuma and Skye get the short end of the stick? It’s clear from every episode and all the merchandise that Chase,...

“I. DON’T. WANT. TO!!” The yelling gets louder and louder as she stomps on her bed staring me down with a scrunched up angry face....

“HOT!” “Run! Run, run, run to the shade!” She shot off in front of me as quickly as her little, chubby legs would allow toward the tree...

It’s hard to be misunderstood. People talk to us like we’re fresh off the boat – which we are. We know very little about South Africa,...

Sorrow softens us corrodes our defenses bares us to the world makes us shy casting down our eyes pulling at our tattered fig leaves and...