A young mother who started group for teen moms died. A beautiful website.

[lostnfound]

Alison Crews. I heard about it on Whole Mother. To honor her, I checked out their website, and it has some wonderful stuff -- essays and features. http://www.girl-mom.com

Like this one:
http://www.girl-mom.com/node/126
Outside the Radar
by dancing_in_the_nude

My name isn’t important, it’s something ethnic, something foreign. Something filled with delicate L’s and rolling R’s, it suits me. I am brown like cinnamon, warm and passionate, and I blend in well in my warm and passionate neighborhood. The streets here aren’t too well cared for, and the houses all need paint. The dogs are chained up, and in the July heat the children fill the streets with their bikes, balls, and games.
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or this one, titled "What a Baby Is"
http://www.girl-mom.com/node/43
...The teenagers I hear craving babies, please know that being a mom isn't all cuddling and hugging and dressing up and rainbows and butterflies.

That's all a part of this intense, life-long experience of motherhood. But, this choice to parent...it's a person. A person who deserves the best of you.

Just wait a while, before you decide to bring a baby into the world.

I just really wish I could tell them all, every one of these young kiddos who wants to have a baby, what I wish someone had told me when I getting myself pregnant. That until you are living it, until you hold this tiny, dependent human in your arms, you don't even know what a baby is.

[alittlelark]

1. Sounds like we lost a powerful, persuasive voice of reason

I cannot begin to understand her journey - but it was far too short.

[flygal]

2. Thanks for posting this

Sounds like she was a great person.

[newswolf56]

3. Thank you for posting this. Some of the writing...

...on this site is genuine poetry.