LJ Herman is a former editor at Love What Matters and lives in Colorado. LJ is a concert, ticket and technology enthusiast. He has seen the Dave Mathews Band over one hundred times and counting.
‘For one brief moment, all was as it should be. Suddenly, without any warning, the path crumbled beneath our feet. I was severely hemorrhaging. I was bleeding out.’
“I couldn’t bring myself to open my eyes. I knew I was in trouble. I asked for my husband and heard his voice weakly manage to say, ‘I love you.’ He knew I was in trouble, too.”
To The Little Girls Who Were Abused And Grew Up To Be Women
“You are never, NEVER defined by what a horrible person did to you.”
‘I remember waking to my cellphone vibrating under my pillow. Completely unaware of how quickly one phone call was about to unravel my life. With my eyes still closed, ‘Hello?’ I answered.’: Woman meets her soulmate
“That phone call? It was his voice on the other line. We never saw him again.”
‘My mom’s back was sore from lifting my kids in and out of the shopping cart. That’s when I shared THE TRICK with her. Behold, the best mom hack you’ll ever find.’
“You’re welcome! Do your part to make a mama’s life easier.”
‘The purple blanket isn’t yours. Even though it covered your car seat when you left the hospital. Even though you sleep with it every night. It’s not yours.’: Mom pens note to baby about sister’s passing
“The preeclampsia had its way. She came early, and she came silently. The purple blanket never touched her fragile skin.”
‘Was waiting to pick up my kids from school when 3 boys took down the flag. They were having a hard time making sure it didn’t touch the ground, when the third boy laid under it to honor it.’
“I was shocked and yelled to my niece, ‘He just laid under it!’ Wow! I just watched the most amazing act of Patriotism.”
‘This is a serious post! What’s the deal with not having changing tables in men’s bathroom as if we don’t exist?! Father’s lives matter.’
“Is the lack of fatherhood that bad in our society where restaurants don’t even bother to put changing tables in men’s restrooms?”
‘Today I yelled. My kids tromped dirt all through my freshly cleaned hardwood and filled our sparkling, sanitized tub with a thick coating of brown. Friends, I yelled. I did.’
“And then I looked at my blue-eyed, dirty-headed baby girl just smiling from ear to ear.”
28 Years After Divorce, My Dad Still Mows My Mom’s Lawn
“This is co-parenting.”
‘My daughter was knocked out. Joking, I asked if she was breathing. Until I felt no movement.’: Mom loses daughter to undiagnosed childhood diabetes
“Her blood sugar level was in the 500s. How could she have died from a disease thousands of people manage? My baby had undiagnosed Type 1 Diabetes. I could not comprehend.”