Last night, my cousin tagged me in a Facebook post about a newborn baby with Treacher Collins Syndrome. When first finding out she was pregnant, the biological mother planned on giving her up for adoption. A facial anomaly was unknown during the pregnancy and the mother simply couldn’t handle a child at the time. Adoptive… Continue reading An Open Letter to the Mother of a Newborn with Treacher Collins Syndrome
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Confronting My Reality – Part 2
If you haven’t already, read Part 1 of this essay for a little bit of background. A few months ago, I found myself in another predicament of choosing whether to confront my reality or to ignore it. A friend suggested I read a best-selling book about a boy with an extreme craniofacial abnormality. She had… Continue reading Confronting My Reality – Part 2
Confronting My Reality – Part 1
I’ve never been one to confront my uneasiness with a head-on crash; I’d rather cautiously navigate around my feelings without leaving an emotional wreck in my wake. Believe me when I say my stoicism runs deeper than just the mask you see. With a heavy dose of irony I tell you that as vocal as… Continue reading Confronting My Reality – Part 1
An Open Letter to Valentine’s Day from a Perpetually Single Female
Dear Valentine’s Day, We don’t know each other well – strike that – we don’t know each other at all. Aside from the few brief times in elementary school we were forced to converge for the sake of the class, I’ve been nothing more than a bystander to you for 32 years. I watched everyone… Continue reading An Open Letter to Valentine’s Day from a Perpetually Single Female
Caught in the in-between, a Beautiful Disaster
This will be the most raw and vulnerable you’ll ever find me. It is also one of the hardest truths I will ever write. I don’t speak of it often but it controls my life more than I care to admit. I’ve tried many times to express this but I guess I wasn’t quite ready… Continue reading Caught in the in-between, a Beautiful Disaster
