My Passing Thoughts
Poems, reflections, and unfinished thoughts from the margins of Letters to My Daughter.
Essays & Letters
Essay · 4 min
A Letter to My Daughter — quotes I keep returning to
Some sentences in this book were not written to be quoted. They were written to be survived. These are the ones readers keep sending back to me.
Essay · 5 min
A Letter to My Daughter — the one I could not send
There is a letter every mother writes and never sends. This is mine. It begins, as most of them do, with an apology I will not finish.
Essay · 5 min
A letter for my daughter on becoming a woman
No one will tell you when it happens. There is no ceremony, no certificate, no Tuesday afternoon when you wake up arrived. There is only weather.
Essay · 6 min
Letters to my daughter — journal prompts for the unfinished letter
If you have been meaning to write your daughter a letter and the page keeps refusing you, begin here. Twelve doorways. Step through whichever one is unlocked today.
Essay · 4 min
Letters to My Daughter — about the book
Readers keep asking what this book actually is. Here is the most honest answer I can give without standing in front of it.
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