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In the Times Of Xenophobia. Second Place in Sister Circle Challenge. Top Story - April 2021.
Dear Mama Anita, Mama, when we came here first, the language was the hardest part wasn't it? You practiced for hours, head bent over my borrowed laptop watching videos and old CDs. I remember the trips to the libraries, where you painstakingly selected the best books, and audiotapes and copied word for word pages upon pages of the mysterious English language.
By Annabella5 years ago in Families
A Letter To My Sisters
Hey, you three, When seeing this competition, I couldn’t help but think of all we’ve gone through, all we’ve overcome together. Us Dawson sisters have been in a whole other world. We’ve lived through financial struggles at young ages. We’ve dealt with mistreatment from others. We’ve carried burdens and secrets too heavy for most. We’ve held each other in heartbreak. We’ve seen each other at our worst. I don’t know if I’ve confessed this openly, and I’m still unsure if I’ll ever let any of you read this, but each one of you has been my strength, encouragement, inspiration, friend, and comfort in different ways.
By Gabriella Dawson5 years ago in Families
A letter to mum
Dear Mum Oh, even to write it feels weird. There has been no need to start any letter or missive in this format or address anyone this way for 30 years. Have you really been gone that long?
By Anita Igboayaka5 years ago in Families
Just Hold My Hand
I hope you never read this letter. Not because I do not mean every word, but because I know you well and you will be mad that I have made you cry. But I cannot help it. You do not understand how your resilience has affected so many lives, including my own.
By Nicole Deviney5 years ago in Families
Everything You Are
The little things count too, you know. You always beat yourself up for all the big things you weren't, and all the things you thought you ought to be. You never quite reached your own expectations, quietly hoping you would but secretly assuming you wouldn't. Who made you believe that you couldn't?
By Elle Kim5 years ago in Families
Momma's Guidance
The strength of a woman is like a fortress standing tall and true. She guides us through the storm and rain, sleet and hail!.
By Tierra Montgomery5 years ago in Families
My Dearest , Darling Jo
My dearest darling Jo, I don’t know if you realize how strong you really are. Even before you were born I could feel the power of your body within me. Then, when the time came, you got jammed. Sideways. Such efforts to get you safely delivered.
By Margaret Watson5 years ago in Families
Discover your own happy
When a person is scared there are two things that they will do; first, fight. Second, flight. Not many people realise that there is in fact a third, do nothing and hope it goes away; freeze. When anyone is faced with uncertainty they chose one of these, mine is by default the latter. It has helped and hindered me during my short-lived life. This is a story of a young lady who through independence and injustice found herself and became afraid of the skin she was in, this is my story.
By Kimai Furness5 years ago in Families
My Very Godmother
I'm not sure I can do this. It's too hard. I know what you told me once, "Just pretend you know what you're doing. No one will know the difference."
By Debra Rogers5 years ago in Families
Dear Mom,
Dear Mom, I know I have given you so much grief over the years. About how you did this instead of that or didn’t do something I felt you should have done. I just wanted you to know how strong I always thought you were. I didn’t quite understand the strength of a woman and how much was required until I too became a mother. Granted, I have only been one for seven years, but I have learned so much and I understand so much more about why you made choices you made and how much you sacrificed for us.
By Zelda Foxx5 years ago in Families
To My Girls. Top Story - March 2021.
To my girls, The assignment is to write an open letter to the strongest woman I know. But how can I choose just one when each of you is so incredible?
By S. Frazer5 years ago in Families
MY MOTHER AND MY OTHER MOTHER
Two Women. I cannot talk about one without interlacing the lives of both. My Mother and my Aunt. My Aunt and my Mother. Murdena and Mary.
By Novel Allen5 years ago in Families