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I wrote the book I didn't believe I was equipped to write.

My path out of darkness was writing

VIDEO: Sarah shares when a kid said she had "baby hands"

"Sometimes I feel small, weak, and insignificant."

I have a confession to make

A Conversation on Mothering-Teri Leigh with Jeannie Ewing

Ekphrastic #7: Transparent Human + Podcast on Motherhood with Sherry Taveras

One bad haircut humiliated me as a child.

Sarah says, "I wish everyone liked the way they looked without wanting to change themselves."

How positive touch heals me

The Quiet Grief of Being a Childless Mother

My scars hold both memory and story.

"I was never strong to begin with."

The weight you carry is my weight, too

I didn't think I wanted children. I ended up with five.

It's painful to be exiled because of who you are.

Ekphrastic #6: Weathered

"We belong to each other."

Sarah says, "Sometimes I want to hide my face under a box."

"Of course I was strong. Did I have any other choice?"

Each of us does the hard thing we're given.

I may not change the world, but I can enter into it.

Nothing in our day is worth haste and hurry.

What you don't know about Apert syndrome + A birthday message from Sarah

I am here with my hands in the dirt.

Sarah shares what it's like to have "different" hands

"New life grows from what has passed."

An Areca palm plant might revive your life.

Love doesn't have to make sense to be true.

Sarah talks about what helped her when she was scared

Ekphrastic #5: My brutal beauty

You support my mission and caregiving of my daughter Sarah

I saw Sarah's face in the casket that day.

A Different Kind of Strength

Ekphrastic #4: The light and shadows inside me

"Love, not intelligence, makes us human."

The malleability of my kids softens me as a mother.

On names and identity: a birthday tribute

Luminescence: the light without heat in everyday life

"Your dream may look different than you expected."

Sometimes you can't move on.