Shared a great post about my South Bronx girl with the BluntMoms and they were kind enough to publish it! This is my first time on this bucket list website of like-minded, potty-mouthed writers. The piece selected, however, is beautiful glimpse of real life, not a scathing expose of motherhood. Maybe next time. Take a visit to this blunt and hysterically funny site, and find surprisingly touching glimpses of real life as well.
Summertime Daughter Grows Up
I have a part-time daughter: a little girl from the South Bronx, who I’ve watched grow up from afar, taught how to read, camp, pick blueberries. I taught her how to use a tampon, importance of birth control, and shoved the importance of school down her throat to escape the only world she ever knew. She’s started as a summer time daughter, turning 5 on the deadline date she climbed