“Just as I was starting to feel some tiny relief from losing my dad, Bill started coughing again. We both knew what the cough was from.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘I came down for breakfast and Bill was busy writing. He told me he was jotting down notes for his memorial service. What? What do you mean ‘memorial service?’ I never made it to the office that day.’
By Eliza Murphy -
‘I’m a teacher dreading this question when school starts. You want to know how my summer really was? It was awful.’
“I was an emotional, hormonal mess who was pregnant, but won’t be having a baby anytime soon.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘I’m going to miss him, but I’m glad he’s feeling better.’ This butterfly would make it to the top of the hill if it was the last thing he did.
“‘Butterflies fly mom. This butterfly can’t do that,’ was his obvious statement to me, asking him not to do what I inherently knew what was coming…”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘My pregnancy was real. Really brief. Really scary. Really exciting. Really hopeful. Really exhausting.’
“I know for some struggling to conceive, seeing others pregnant can be triggering. For me, being pregnant was triggering.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘She kept saying: Come on Ms. Helma! You can do it!’ Teacher CARRIES student with cerebral palsy on her back during class hike on camping trip
“She was encouraging me! Giving me little neck massages when she saw I was struggling. She made up songs for us to sing. She sang a song when I was really sweating.”
By LJ Herman -
‘I’ve never kissed a girl on the lips’: Why this couple WAITED to share their first kiss
“I really wanted the woman I was going to marry to be the only woman I had ever kissed.”
By Eliza Murphy -
