by denenemillner_imysx2 | Jul 27, 2022 | Family
(Originally published on NewYorkTimes.com) Memories of the day I found out the boy I loved was loving on someone else are stuck on my brain like some Technicolor scab. The moment stays vivid not just because of my own misery, but because of my mother’s reaction. Upon...
by denenemillner_imysx2 | Sep 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
(Originally published on Glamour.com) I liked being married, and then I didn’t, and at some point, I went from actually wanting to cook and clean and handle the laundry and manage the family schedule and do all the things supposedly good wives do, to waking up first...
by denenemillner_imysx2 | Sep 28, 2022 | Family
(Originally published on Yahoo.com) For Mother’s Day 2018, Yahoo Lifestyle asked women to share stories about something they understood about their moms only after becoming mothers themselves. This is the third in the series; you can read the first here and the...
by denenemillner_imysx2 | Aug 17, 2022 | Work
(Originally published on NewYorkTimes.com) She was rushing past me into the bathroom, a whir of caramel skin and blue jeans and reddish-brown locs flying behind her, when I noticed the patch of uneven Afro stretching across at least a third of the back of her head....
by denenemillner_imysx2 | Aug 15, 2022 | Family
(Originally published on MadameNoire.com) My older daughter, Mari, was 10 years old when I told her what abortion is. I would have rather saved the conversation for when she was a bit older, but she’d seen the New York Times lying next to her cereal bowl and read the...
