![Watching My Daughter Develop the Same Anxiety I Struggle With [New York Magazine]](http://mommymeansit.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/12-anxiety.w710.h473-400x266.jpg)
“It is relatively early on a summer evening, just after sunset. From my bed, I notice a shadow of a spindly branch dancing across the corner of the bedroom wall. I get up and close the curtains tightly to make it disappear, careful not to step on my daughter, who’s camped on my bedroom floor,… Continue Reading
The day a stranger saved me at Target, I was wearing an oversized, peach tank top. It was one of the few shirts that fit over my already large, fully engorged breasts. I walked through Target, shopping while nursing. It was a skill I’d acquired when I became a mom for a third time in… Continue Reading
![The Day My Father Shot My Mother [The Establishment]](http://mommymeansit.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/IMG_6357-300x300.jpg)
“I had a quirky childhood habit of sitting sideways on the toilet. It began, I surmise, in our Southeast San Diego house on Manos Drive, sometime after I turned five. Sitting side-saddle allowed me to look in the mirror and lose myself awhile. Perched there, I often acted out scenes from the day’s All My… Continue Reading
![10 Things My Chronic Illness Taught My Children [The New York Times]](http://mommymeansit.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/16disability-master768-400x267.jpg)
My children have a mother with a chronic illness. They live with my rheumatoid arthritis just as much as I do. I was given my diagnosis when all three of them were young, and since then I’ve spent a lot of time worrying about what the daily uncertainty of my condition would mean to them,… Continue Reading
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