The next few hours after Kim got off the phone with Luka were a blur. This was a moment she had tried to imagine often but always been a little too afraid to count on happening. But it was, at last it was, and periodically she would stop in her frantic packing to burst into a round of ecstatic tears, praise for God on her lips each time. Thank ( Read more... )

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This was my first Mother's Day without my child in six years ( Read more... )

What would your life be, if it were a movie? Comedy, horror, drama sci-fi? And who would play you?

I think right now my life could only be a movie on Lifetime, ie melodrama. You know, they’re always showing things about mothers and the troubles with their children. What a perfect set-up I have going on. Young mother with a successful career who ( Read more... )

Lately I’ve begun to realize something I never did before. It’s not so much the place where you live but the people you are with. Oh, I know some places are better than others, but think about it. Even in the worst of places, if you love or care for the people you are with then even they aren’t so bad. And yet, if someone you love the most isn’ ( Read more... )

It's been a month since Roger took him. Every day I make it a point to go to the police station myself; every day I contact the FBI. I have a bag packed and ready in case they find him in another state and I have to fly immediately to him. There's clothes for me and for him, his favorite book and his teddy bear. I'd bring his cat if I could ( Read more... )

It's so hard to choose just a single moment. Often the smaller moments lead to bigger ones, blanket moments that come to shape a large part of our lives. And how do we know that changing that one tiny thing wouldn't negate something positive that happened because of it? I could say I would never have slept with my ex-husband, but then I would ( Read more... )

You see them all the time on the news, or movies on Lifetime: the committed, driven mothers fighting for some sort of advocacy regarding their murdered, hurt, or missing child. As a lawyer I’ve worked firsthand with them, seen their pain up close and in all its detailed reality. And perhaps every dedicated mother knows that she would react the ( Read more... )