March/April 2023
Just after I started work with Literary Mama, my life turned. Standing upright, breathing, making sure my kid was fed and loved and weathering her situation, and keeping my teaching job became my only concerns. Yet I never fully stepped away from this journal. And I know it was because of the support and patience I received from the mamas who work here.
This is no surprise: the people who kept me upright, gently asked if I had eaten, and treated me like family even though I had only recently moved to my current neighborhood? All mamas. We’re all here because of the mamas who originally got the gumption to create this journal and those who have kept it moving—online, free, and still powered by multifaceted mamas and mama supporters.
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