Posts tagged children
taking stock // setting intentions
taking stock // setting intentions

“Coffee to go & feeling kicked in the chest by the passage of time. Thinking of my youngest child, my solstice baby, turning two on the longest night of the year; realizing that he’s officially a toddler now, not a baby, & I will never have any more babies.”

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Personal EssayJessie Lynn McMainsjessie lynn mcmains, reflection, reflections, playlist, end of year playlist, end of decade playlist, meowlist, mortality, motherhood, winter, melancholy, tori amos, the pretenders, 2000 miles, silent all these years, children, having kids, solstice, california, oakland, marriage, womxnhood, womanhood, heatbreak, poetry, joshua tree, hollywood forever, peter lorre, dee dee ramone, patti smith, chicagoComment
I Keep Meaning to Write About the Day You Were Born
I Keep Meaning to Write About the Day You Were Born

“I’m not saying in those years I tried to forget you but I tried to stop remembering you… I could not forget you anymore than I could forgive myself for trying to.”

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Creative Non-FictionSubmissionadoption, motherhood, parenthood, holly pelesky, creative non-fiction, creative writing, cnf, pussy magic, literature, literary community, children, adulthood, choices, decisions, pro-choice, women, women's issues, reflectionComment