My daughter and her husband tried for a baby for almost a decade. Pills, specialists, procedures… everything short of giving up. Their house was quiet in that heavy sort of way, where even hope felt like it was holding its breath. I remember watching my daughter sit by the window some evenings, hands folded…

I’m Margaret. I’m 73, and I need to tell you about the day grief gave me a second chance at motherhood. Eighteen years ago, I was on a flight back to my city… to bury my daughter. She’d died in a car accident along with my precious grandson, and I felt like someone had…

Sometimes, life has a way of surprising you when you least expect it. For me, it all started with a simple request from a man who had nothing but love for his dog. It had been a year since my husband, Jason, passed away in a car accident. A year of struggling to hold…

Have you ever had someone in your life who just assumed your time belonged to them? Someone who looked at your circumstances and decided that because you didn’t fit their mold of “busy,” you were automatically available? That’s my sister Daphna in a nutshell. I’m Amy. I work from home, and, yeah, I’m single.…

My name’s Lily, and I’m 16 now. When I was ten, cancer took my mother piece by piece, stealing her from me one treatment at a time. Those years still feel like scars stitched across my childhood. Mom’s name was Nora. She was the kind of gentle woman who made you automatically lower your…