by Molly Huggins | Sep 14, 2021 | Our Story
2021 feels like a lament, a sacrifice, a burnt offering of time and sanity and presence. A series of goodbyes, both to the tangible and to the what-could-have-been. I haven’t been much of a friend. Or a mother, or a wife, or even a writer. I am stretched between them...
by Molly Huggins | Nov 17, 2020 | Our Story, Thankful
2020 is the year no one saw coming. A gut-wrenching, life-altering cascade of events that no one has escaped from unscathed. Even as I started writing this, it was Election Day, your birth day, in a deeply divisive season of discord, an election that even now is...
by Molly Huggins | Sep 13, 2020 | Darling Girl
(On the occasion of Darling Girl’s fifth birthday. Every night she insists I sing the Peter Paul & Mary version of Hush-A-Bye. She can’t go to sleep without it.) Hush-a-bye, don’t you cry, go to sleep you little baby. When you wake you shall have...
by Molly Huggins | Jul 8, 2018 | Army Life
Start here to read part 1. I’ve been knocking around these last few weeks in Georgia with a low level weight on my chest and a skim coat of panic in the back of my throat, and if you ask me, I couldn’t tell you exactly why. Our last days in Virginia were...
by Molly Huggins | Nov 17, 2017 | Army Life, deployment, Husband, Our Story
(I am a week behind. This, this for Veteran’s Day, 2017). I stood in the post office the other day, boxing up the bulk of my children’s Halloween candy to send to a friend overseas. I fumbled over the customs form, a piece of paper I’ve scribbled...
