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Fleeing Breast Cancer, I Found a Miracle

On October 31, 2015   /   Motherhood   /   2 Comments

I’ve known the month of September to be a wily foe. Perhaps her cunning is a mere protesting of the confusion that comes with bearing two seasons at once. Still, I haven’t liked her much. It was during her days that I lost my mom to breast

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Why I Said Yes to Cancer-Preventing Surgery

On August 25, 2015   /   Breast cancer, Motherhood   /   2 Comments

It’s late June, a golden-blue day wrapped in soft, honeyed rustles hinting at untold promises and glories of the summer at hand. My small children are gliding into a friend’s home, their goodbye kisses and laughter floating through tousles of hair. The sparkles fade to dust, swallowed

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What the Living Can Learn From the Dying

On April 17, 2015   /   Faith, Grief, Motherhood, Women's Issues   /   Leave a comment

Kara Tippetts, a wife and young mother, died recently. I didn’t know her. Like many, though, I feel as if I did–from the words she shared in her book, on her blog and in her radio interviews. Tippetts, 38, was a warrior. She lost a battle with

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When a Mom Dies Young

On April 4, 2013   /   Faith, Grief, Motherhood   /   5 Comments

Amanda* is dying from breast cancer. In her early 40s with several young children, she recently told her husband that after she’s gone, she’d like him to remarry. Cancer drugs have sustained her life but stolen her hair. She takes them now to prevent her softening bones

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Dying Well

On February 4, 2013   /   Grief, Motherhood   /   14 Comments

My Mom would be 70 years old today. That seems old. I can only picture her as young–probably because she died at 46. In the prime of life, with a full head of thick brown waves, sparkling green eyes and a radiance that suggested she might be

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