To the Women Who Raised Me - by Tara Monjazeb - Devotions
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Devotions: Mother's Day edition
Thank you all for being so patient with me these past few weeks — dissertation is submitted! Now back to our regularly scheduled programming. I grew up around strong women. They were all like second mothers to me. My late grandma, the eldest of her seven siblings, was the sun, and my aunts and my mom all orbited around her like planets. My sisters and I were the little moons — always watching in vicarious orbit. My grandma’s house was the center of our universe: with the kitchen crowded, full of laughter, and the door always open. Everyone in my life has told me that I’m from my dad’s…
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