I've been writing here every Monday for over a year, and I'm also writing a book. Almost Free is a memoir about what gets passed down when women tell the truth — caregiving, loss, creative resurrection, and the hope I'm planting for my future descendants.

By Charrise McCrorey
· Launched a year ago

Stories Connect Us

Catch and Release

About fishing, writing, and a muse celebration
Jun 22•Charrise McCrorey

Pinned Like a Butterfly

A story about a relationship that might have ended but didn’t.
Jun 15•Charrise McCrorey

Mysteries Only My Soul Knows

A letter from my dead mother
Jun 8•Charrise McCrorey

Hope Chest

Healing is the only way to hope
Jun 1•Charrise McCrorey

Grief Doesn’t Need A Holiday

I was caring for her soul
May 25•Charrise McCrorey

If Grief Were A Tree

a poem I wrote today, and the story beneath it
May 23•Charrise McCrorey

Holding

Writing Amelia Into Existence
May 18•Charrise McCrorey

Motherless

My third Mother's Day without her
May 11•Charrise McCrorey

Love Is Always Bigger, Part Two

On purpose and on time.
May 4•Charrise McCrorey

Love is Always Bigger, Part One

How Loss Tests That Theory
Apr 27•Charrise McCrorey

They Stay

A story about sister love.
Apr 20•Charrise McCrorey

Live, They Say: My Ancestors Speak.

Joan Miró, Woman and Bird, 1967.
Apr 13•Charrise McCrorey

Nice. Helpful. Easy.

How I left myself, over and over.
Apr 6•Charrise McCrorey

What Would Charrise Do?

My experiences in the kissing of feet
Mar 30•Charrise McCrorey

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