“I remember chunks of hair falling onto my pillow. My body transformed. It took a while to look in the mirror and see my naked face with no eyebrows, yellow eyes. Sometimes I wondered if I’d ever feel better. Then afterwards, it all hits you like a train and you sit there and literally think to yourself, ‘What the heck did I just go through and how in the world did we do it?’ Life after cancer is not easy. One side effect of chemo? Infertility.”
‘We said ‘I love you’ at 13. He didn’t care I wore a wig. He found me broken and put the pieces back together.’: Woman with Hodgkin’s lymphoma falls back in love with childhood crush, conceives after infertility predictions
It Is Not Your Job To Be A Decoration At The Beach
“I got the idea to do this project after being inundated with multiple ads every day enticing me with photos and emojis and offers to buy their product to get a ‘beach body’ or ‘bikini body’ or ‘summer body.'”
After 2 Years, 6 Miscarriages, And 1 Failed Adoption, We Finally Have Our Son
“From the moment I saw his little tiny self laying in that bed, I knew—that was my baby.”
‘I’m going to be honest with you guys, I didn’t think I could do it.’: Single mom graduates Harvard, goes from ‘anomaly to statistic to example’
“Evelyn, they said that because of you I wouldn’t be able to do this. Just know that I did this BECAUSE OF YOU.”
Dear Newborn: I Used To Have Freedom, But I Didn’t Have You
“I had my time. I had my quiet. I had my daily showers. I had my tidy home. I had my control of the remote. But not one of those things really matters, because I have you.”
‘I knew I had to capture her before it was too late.’: Daughter photographs dying mother in wake of family’s ‘tremendous loss 6 months prior’
“You don’t realize how silent a room can be when one person stops breathing… it’s deafening.”
It’s Time Public Restrooms Accommodated Fathers Caring For Children
“It’s crazy to imagine, I know, but there are guys who take care of their kids too.”
‘I remember thinking ‘I’ll be happy when I get married.’: Woman says ‘sometimes life is simply about appreciating the drive’
“Our trajectory completely changed with the appearance of two little blue lines.”
‘She said, ‘That IS you, and when you wake up, that’s what you’ll do.’: Spider-Man visits 10,000 sick children when they need him most
“The hospital said I couldn’t visit him, but the child’s mother asked me, ‘Do you work for the hospital? Or God?’ That question stopped me in my tracks. That led me to visiting my first child ever, by sneaking my suit in my backpack, changing in a bathroom close to his room, and rushing to his side.”
Dear Daughter, You Are Coming Of Age In An Interesting Time
“Things are available to you that were not before. Glass ceilings are being shattered. Long held prejudices that for years went unquestioned are being questioned, finally. Men who committed crimes against women are being called on it. A paradigm is starting to shift, albeit slowly.”