I’m a mother of 2 in my almost mid-40s and I don’t have a mother. She still breathes somewhere, last I heard, but she’s not in my life.

My days are easier because of this.

And so today, while I know it’s a hard one for many, I celebrate the stable things I do have in my life.

And I am one of them.

I’m stable now because of an absence of something that never should have left.

This body is stable now because I re-taught it how to move through this life.

I am good.

I am strong.

I am here.

And now, I’m gonna sit in my yard in what is either the most practical or impractical of bikinis with a glass of champagne and a pile of trash magazines and watch the squirrels.

I love you💋