LJ Herman is a former editor at Love What Matters and lives in Colorado. LJ is a concert, ticket and technology enthusiast. He has seen the Dave Mathews Band over one hundred times and counting.
‘I wasn’t always this sick. It just fell upon me in the most beautiful possible way.’
“I would faint up to 20 times a day, couldn’t eat more than clear liquids and struggled to even get off the couch. Everyone shed an extra tear at the ‘in sickness and in health’ part of our vows.”
Dear Society: Please Stop Commenting On Children’s Bodies
“She’s so big. How much does she weigh?”
‘Our carts hit each other. I don’t think it was by accident. I asked you, a stranger, if you were okay. ‘No, no I’m not.’ Then it happened. We both started crying.’
“I don’t normally ask strangers in Target if they are okay but at that moment you weren’t a stranger. You were a fellow Mom knee deep in emotions in the folder aisle just like me.”
‘I was not planning to go this route in my life, I was not emotionally and financially prepared to quit working. You put tears in my eyes, a smile on my face, and I feel so grateful.’
“I went door to door on my street to find her!”
Someday, You’ll Watch Your Wife Become The Woman She Was Meant To Be
“You’ll try to fathom how the teenager you fell for all those years ago managed to become the fiercest woman you know.”
The Mysterious Illness That Changed My Life
“Hmm. My story. I never know where to begin. Should I reveal the ending at the beginning? Because really, there is no ending when it comes to chronic illness.”
‘I’ve debated on this post for a while but I’ve decided I’d show the hard parts of the aftermath of giving birth, and the ultimate sacrifice mothers make from day one.’: Mom shares candid photo right after birth
“Don’t ever discredit a mother. You don’t know the half. No one told me your belly doesn’t go down immediately. No one told me I’d be bleeding out.”
‘They choose you, you know. In Heaven.’ He pointed to my swollen belly, my twins inside.’: Mom realizes her children ‘chose’ her after chance encounter with stranger in hospital waiting room
“What I wanted most when I was pregnant? I wanted the fantasy. I didn’t want to know every gory detail. Because sometimes? You just need that one person who says everything is going to be okay.”
I Caught My Son Helping An Elderly Woman Today, And I Couldn’t Be More Proud Of The Man He’s Becoming
“To say we are proud of the young man he is turning into is an understatement.”
Your House Should Be Dirty—Here’s Why
“I sighed and said, ‘I wish my house always looked like this,’ while trying to wrangle both my toddlers from touching or messing anything up in this museum of beauty. She looked at me sadly and said, ‘Why?’”