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.

What good did it do to light the world on fire if she had to watch the glow alone?

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.

I am such a Pacific Northwest girl.

She waited for you in a thousand different ways.

Real friends. The kind that don't purposely hurt your feelings or stop liking you for no reason.