If I should have a daughter...

This, for some reason, spoke to me. I get what she's saying-- I feel the world in much the same way. I think my blog is like a tentative step in sharing my voice, my story, with the world around me. But I don't believe I'd have the courage to speak one of those stories in front of a crowd like that.  (The poems at the beginning and end strike me right in the heart and stir up some undefinable sense of longing.)