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 | Feb 27, 2021 | Grief, Our Story
{Most of you know this already, but my father, David Anthony Maddox, passed away on February 13, 2021. Below is a slightly edited version of the remarks I made at his funeral. I can’t bring myself to say anymore.} I’ve thought about this moment many times. I’m a...
by Molly Huggins | Jan 15, 2021 | Our Story
{I originally wrote this at the beginning of Dec, but posting it here for posterity. Time for some real talk, the COVID postpartum edition. While my physical recovery has been the easiest one yet (go figure-5th kid and old lady pregnancy and my body is all “we got...
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 | 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...
by Molly Huggins | Sep 5, 2016 | Aha Moments, Army Life, deployment, Fear, Grief, Hope, Husband, Our Story, Photos
I am two okay, three birthday letters behind and I have lots of parenting things to write about but this, this is the most important thing I have to say right now. I don’t know who needs to hear this but listen up, in case it is you. I’ve been an Army wife for...
