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This prompt made me smile before I even picked up my pen. When I think of the list of things that bring me joy today — really sit with it — I can trace them back to a moment, a memory, a season of life that shaped me without me realizing it at the time. Baking — Where It All Began Mom taught me how to bake when I was young. The kitchen was where she showed love in a language that felt natural to her. I never let go of it. In 2020, during the lockdown, I started taking cake an

From mom to me: how can i better support you in achieving your goals? This question stopped me. This is a blog series where I go there each of the prompts inside Just Between Mom & Me — the journal I created, the one that exists because of her, the one I never got to fill out with her. So I'm answering it the only way I can now. Honestly. Out loud. As if she can hear me. She can. My mom was my angel on earth before she became my angel in heaven. She had her struggles. She had

Dear Momma, This is the first prompt in the journal I made for you: “What are your dreams and aspirations?” It's a question I wrote to be from mom to kid— which means if this were a perfect world, if you were still here, this is what you would have written and slid across the table to me. I can picture it. You would have written it in your handwriting, underlined it maybe, and left it somewhere I'd find it. I wish I had more of your handwriting, that’s part of where the idea