This originally appeared on Arielle Silver’s blog. Republished here with permission. I tuck her in at night. I help her with homework, band aids, and boys. She tells me her dreams. She is my oldest daughter, but I am not her mother. It’s a good name, “middle” school. They’re not quite who they used to […]
No matter who has the affair, we all participate in the demise of our love, says Arielle Silver. At the height of the Clinton-Lewinsky affair scandal, I was newly graduated from college and living in Boston with my boyfriend. Our spacious apartment on the lower level of a two-family Victorian had a sweet backyard garden […]
Loving someone means accepting the parts of their past that have led them to you. A few years ago, when my younger stepdaughter Shiloh was around 5, we were in the midst of the usual pre-holiday cookie cutters excitement when she announced to her dad and me that all she wanted for Christmas was a […]
