Susan Petcher – Before Kids

Before I had kids?  I didn’t know I was suffering from debilitating anxiety.  You see, I thought everyone lived like I did, felt like I did, thought like I did. I mean, doesn’t everybody cry in their car in the parking lot of the mall because they can’t...

Lauren Hale – A Different Breed

She sighs, in the penumbra of the small and softly lit lamp, as her baby snuggles closer to her neck, his chubby fists opening and closing. He exhales and relaxes his body with a small rattled whimper. She waits, her eyelids drooping more with every passing second,...