Letter to My Daughters

What to tell them? What do you say to young daughters on the threshold of discovering who they are in the larger world when you’re not going to be there to guide them? What is important for them to know for their journey that only Mom can tell them?

After raising her three daughters solo since they were preschoolers, the author faced the realization that an undiagnosed, debilitating illness may mean the end of her time with her children. As she recalled the stories of their childhood and her...