(Trauma Made Me Strong) I didn’t know bravery until I became a mother. When I held my firstborn — my Harry — I was twenty-four, terrified, exhausted, and cracked open in every direction a woman can break and still be breathing. Seventeen hours of labor. Two and a half hours of pushing. A nurse fresh […]

Recently, I sat courtside watching my eight-year-old daughter fight her heart out for first place on a basketball court she had never stepped onto before this season. Weeks earlier, she told me, “Mommy, I just feel it (basketball) inside of me—I want to play.” And she meant it. By the fourth game, she made her […]