cancer – colleen stinchcombe

The absent grandmother

I want to have kids, but I don’t want them now. I don’t want them now for several reasons: career, finances, personal situations. But I also don’t want them now because I want to be the kind of mother my mother was to me. My mom loved us. Not in the way that all parentsContinue reading “The absent grandmother”

Grieving, in-process

My mom died on January 10th. I guess you could say that means I’m in the process of grieving. Grieving looks different from how I imagined it. I am not immobile in my bed. I am not bursting into tears at inopportune times. My eyes well up when I talk about my mom. I don’t likeContinue reading “Grieving, in-process”