Blog – Stephanie Land

Family, Personal Growth, Single Mom, Writing

The Still, Quiet Voice

If I spent even ten minutes remembering, and writing, later that night when she screamed and fought me over eating or going to bed, I could go back to that place where I meditated on the way her hands looked as she carefully picked up a crab with a yellow plastic shovel.

Co-Parenting, Family, Financial Struggles, Friends, My Pregnancy and Birth, Single Mom, Single Woman, Work, Writing

Here Now

“You’re a great mom,” she said. “You get grumpy, but you just had a baby by yourself. I know it’s hard.”

Family, Single Mom, Work

Finding Christmas

I wish sometimes that this could be Christmas. Quiet mornings, in the glow of lights, and not a build-up to another early morning of opening gifts.

Single Mom, Work, Writing

Quiet Moments of Success

I usually allow moments like this to pass. I believe that if I give them attention, I might jinx them in some way.

Family, Personal Growth, Single Mom, Work, Writing

pour qui

Every word and thought and event seems to shape itself into a beginning middle and end in a perfect 800-word format that I can send off in a pitch.

ShelterDog, Single Mom

The Lonely Times

A dog who panics when you leave doesn’t need less love, she needs more.

College, Financial Struggles, Personal Growth

Writing Out of Poverty. Literally.

Without the degree, though, I don’t think I would have stopped cleaning houses. I don’t think I would have thought myself on the same level as the people whose houses I cleaned.

Adventures!, Family, Personal Growth, Single Mom, Single Woman

Finding your Inner Mr. Rogers

Watching the episodes Netflix chose to release, especially the one with the crayon factory, was to sit as a child again, remembering my small frame and long hair, listening intently to the nice man telling me I mattered because I was me and nobody else was.