You signed no contract to become a parent, but the responsibilities were written in invisible ink. There was a point when you had to support your child, even if no one else would. It was your job to rebuild the bridge, even if your child was the one who burned it in the first place.

what made you happy once might not make you happy now.

Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.

How do you tell an adult that maybe everything wrong in the world stems from the fact that she's stopped believing the impossible can happen?

Gay teenagers are four times as likely to attempt suicide as straight ones. I wish they knew that there's nothing wrong with them; that they are just a different shade of normal.

I wonder if you've got a minute." I have many minutes, all of them used toward a common purpose.

I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.