Connected

As a young woman I never had much respect for second place.  A win was a win and a loss was a loss. You didn’t almost win coming in second place. In my mind you lost. Simple. But that changed in my late twenties.  It all started with my boys

Motherhood is a momentous and rewarding undertaking for most, so what makes a woman decide not to have children? I imagine there are several reasons - all are valid. Here’s mine .

K K

Not a conventional mom name, but this is not one of those stories. This is a story

all mother figures. Because mothers come in so many ways to us. I did not even

realize that I had a different mother figure until much later in my life. I always

knew there was someone very important in my life. My sister was a decade older

than me and I looked up to her and loved her and wanted to be like her in so

many ways. But for many years we were just not that close.

 I began to move around the country with job changes and I had children of my own. I was a mom.