I’ve been breastfeeding for 5 years and 8 months. Nursing is hard. It’s dedication. It’s like writing a book – one word at a time – but with your body – one drop at a time. I know prolonged nursing is taboo for a lot of people. I used to think it was weird. But here I am. Just letting it sink in tonight, knowing I’m almost done with this part of my life (Claire is almost weaned). But this journey…it’s like a lot of things in life: something big that is made of single moments stacked together. Something I fought for. I remember crying on the phone while giving…

Hi, my name is Holly. I’m an author and publicist (an indie author for now, but I hope to publish the works of others once I have grown enough). I have loved writing since I was little. My mom used to go to parent teacher conferences and she was told Holly was writing during math again. My first story, that I remember, was called Stinkerella. We had to write our own version of Cinderella, and I had been absent on pick your character day. That was how school often went for me: I didn’t go, I got the worst group or the last choice. In this case, it was the kind of challenge that set me down a…