Roberta Azzopardi 11/19/24 Roberta Azzopardi 11/19/24

Mummy, I don’t mean to make you angry.

I see you get angry. I see your eyes getting smaller and smaller, your mouth becomes a thin line. I don’t like it when you get angry.

Roberta Azzopardi 9/12/24 Roberta Azzopardi 9/12/24

I’m sorry, but do I know you?

The question turned and echoed, fighting its way over the clamour in my head. I saw him, my boy, climbing the rope ladder and I was about to go to him, knowing he had never managed on his own. But look - he’s done it. And I falter in my steps.

Alison Lowell 8/13/24 Alison Lowell 8/13/24

Goodnight, My Heart

Some nights, I cannot sleep. I toss and turn, and then I toss and turn a little more.

Roberta Azzopardi 8/4/24 Roberta Azzopardi 8/4/24

And then there were two

How often have I sat down to start this piece? No, how often have I thought about writing it? God knows. I’ve written the opening line in my head so many times it should probably win a Booker at this point.

Nadine Muscat Cini 8/3/24 Nadine Muscat Cini 8/3/24

Pretty Shoes

I can wear pretty shoes at the park 🐾

not running around after toddlers, yes I can

Roberta Azzopardi 2/6/24 Roberta Azzopardi 2/6/24

Life, Pregnancy and Raising a Fearless Toddler

I yelled today. And yesterday. Sometimes, I don’t recognize myself in this woman that’s usually so hard to anger.

Roberta Azzopardi 10/21/22 Roberta Azzopardi 10/21/22

How therapy is helping me be a better mother

There’s never been an easier time than now to believe you need to do it all, and to do it well. If not for your own sake, then for the sake of those watching.

Roberta Azzopardi 4/25/22 Roberta Azzopardi 4/25/22

Through Your Eyes

Ah, to be you! To see the world with your eyes, to make anew and exciting the mundane, to see possibility in every new space, every new object, every new situation.

8/9/21 8/9/21

Mother.

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