To those who are here, those who are gone, and those who are lost.

She is like a child picking at a scab, unable to stop herself even though she knows it will hurt.

To lose love is a terrible thing. But to turn away from it is unbearable. Will you spend the rest of your life replaying it in your head? Wondering if you walked away too soon or too easily? Or if you'll ever love anyone that deeply again?

One thing I can tell you for sure is this: we only regret what we don't do in life.

What I know now about life is this: your mother is a part of everything you do and everything you are.

She'd been criticized for holding the reins of parenthood too tightly, of controlling her children too completely, but she didn't know how to let go. From the moment she'd first decided to become a mother, it had been an epic battle.

We women. as glue for the family. lead lives that are important and conflicted. What we women choose to give up for our families is important and valid.