Jena Massie
What You’ve Been Looking For
You want to be here.
I’m telling you, this is the group you want to be a part of.
These women come from different backgrounds, have different upbringings, have different beliefs and voting preferences and political...
To The One Who is Weary
Don’t give up.
I know things are hard right now, simple things are overwhelming, and the future is full of uncertainty. You wonder if it will ever get better. I know you feel like you...
I Take You, Through Hell and Back
I remember him telling me some time after we lost her how he was in a different place than me.
His grief wasn't where mine was because he didn't know her as I did. He...
Thinking About You
I love imagining you with chubby little fingers.
Picking flowers and making wishes. Stopping to watch a roly-poly crawl by and say hi to all the ladybugs. Climbing a tree, bravely taking one step at a...
Holy Ground
I didn't decorate her place out at the cemetery for every single holiday this year.
I don't know if it was the survival mode of this whole year, that it simply felt like too much...
A Man of Action
My dad has never really been a man of a lot of words.
I grew up saying I love you, mostly to a response of “I know.” But that was always enough for me because...
A Mother’s Regret and Joy
A Mother’s Regret:
Baby’s breath placed in glasses on her wall.
Golden angel wings above her changing table.
Stickers of each month to come, displayed in a basket.
Her initials displayed in blue, on the wall you can...
Remembered Treasures
It's always crazy to me how grief works.
I had entirely forgotten that the girls' four glasses that they drink juice out of every morning were the ones hanging by a string on her nursery...
Taking a Break
So, here’s the biggest secret of them all, a secret I haven’t dared to say out loud and not even wanted to admit to myself. But, here it goes. Sometimes, even I need a...
The Story of Our Middle Child
I remember our very first moments together. The first calm after all the commotion and chaos of her coming into this world on her terms and holding her in my arms. It was just...