You may not know it to look at me, but some days, I wake up an empress. The transition happens without warning, on any day of the week, in any month of the year. I simply wake up royal, the world at my feet, my fate in my hands. Sometimes, my royalty lasts all day. […]
Fourteen years ago, when I gave birth to my daughter, I looked down into her slate colored eyes and knew, without a shred of doubt, that she would be my greatest accomplishment. I knew that it didn’t matter what I was yet to do or how long I was meant to live: she was it. […]
