freedom

Freedom in the New Year

For most of my life, I assumed that I would be a mother, raising a wild, creative crew of young feisty children, my house filled with noise and love. Since our earliest days together, Ben and I would talk about our future kids, joking about how they’d better have musical talent, arguing over how many […]

Love, Freedom and Independence

More than once, when I talked to someone about this journey and answered the question “is your husband going with you?”, the response was something like this: “and he let you do this alone??”. Sometimes this would be followed by a comment about how the speaker (always a man) would never let his wife do […]