Why I Want Health Insurance Reform

It’s very simple. I want everyone to have access to the same high-quality, timely medical care that currently only the well-off people can afford.
I have worked part-time for minimum wage to put myself through college. I know what it feels like to live without insurance, only I was lucky enough to be young and healthy at the time. [...]

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A is for My Daughter

My little girl’s name begins with an A. She is a five-year-old bundle of energy, a smart, inquisitive child, with a strong temper and a will of her own, but also with a tender, surprisingly vulnerable side.
She has become a little lady, tall and slim, with dark, glossy hair that is never long enough. Her [...]

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Gray Day

I’m feeling pretty sorry for myself today. It’s been one of those days when everything piles on and I don’t have the strength to put on a happy face. 
The word “Mama” being uttered every five minutes jars on my nerves. I am homesick, and loneliness feels like a load on my shoulders that I can’t shake off. I [...]

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The First Year in Review

My baby boy is now fourteen months. He is no longer a helpless, fragile bundle of limbs, but an eager explorer of the world around him. I remember the early days of his life and I marvel at how far we have come.  The nights he wouldn’t sleep, the mornings when I felt like death, the throbbing, painful [...]

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