Fall is just around the corner… but what else might be closer than you think? You decide🫣🤔
#newhomeconstruction #newhome #downsizing #movingoutofstate #emptynesting

Creative Nonfiction: This Is the Part Where You Leave Her by Wendy Fontaine Where you stand amidst the brand-new bedding and the unpacked textbooks and wrap your arms around her

I wrote this after dropping my daughter off at college. I wanted to see if I could capture that feeling in a single sentence story structure.
I'm about to drop her off again in two weeks, and I have a feeling this is going to happen to me all over again.
#emptynesting

The Specter of a Story (And What Demeter Knows about Motherhood)

This week while writing, I had several long conversations with the goddess Demeter about parenting young adults and learning to listen to their stories and experiences and say, "I believe you."

#substack #greekmythology #thescrapheap #motherhood #emptynesting

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Just dropped my kid back at school for her second semester, and now I’m sad.
#emptynesting