Being a single mom is demanding on its own. Adding multiple jobs to the mix creates a complex balancing act that tests strength, patience, and resilience every day. The reality of managing work, childcare, and personal needs without a partner’s support can feel overwhelming. This post explores the real challenges faced by single moms working multiple jobs and offers practical insights to help navigate this difficult path. Managing Time with Limited Hours Time is the most prec

There is a peculiar kind of loneliness that comes from being deeply visible and still profoundly misunderstood. A lot of people mistake familiarity for understanding, but they are not the same thing. Being known, at least in the public sense, often just means people have gathered enough details about your life to feel entitled to form an opinion about it. They know your name, your work, your family, your hardest season, your most visible moments, and maybe the version of your

Most conversations about honesty begin with obvious things: what was said, what was hidden, what was done. We tend to think of dishonesty as something dramatic, something easy to point to, something with a clear beginning and a clear offense. But over time, I have started to wonder whether honesty is sometimes tested in quieter ways. Not necessarily in what a person declares, but in what they allow to exist around them. There is a difference between a direct lie and a life th

If my mess of a self can manage all of this . . . you certainly can too!

Little Judith Becoming Her There are things that happen to you so early, and for so long, that they do not just hurt you. They shape you. They teach your body how to stay tense, your mind how to stay alert, and your heart how to stay hidden. They follow you into womanhood and introduce themselves in ways no one else can see. They show up as anger that feels too sharp, fear that feels too deep, shame that has no obvious source, and a constant sense that something inside you ha

What criminal defense, marriage, motherhood, and life inside the same judicial district have taught me about complexity, conviction, and humility. The older I get, the less impressed I am by people who are certain about everything. Maybe that sounds cynical. Maybe it sounds tired. Maybe it sounds like what happens when you have spent too many years living in the tension between competing truths. But if my life has taught me anything, it is this: the people most committed to e

When a Small Town Turns a Woman’s Pain Into a Story In a small town, a woman does not get to fall apart in private. The moment her pain becomes visible, it becomes public property. People do not ask what happened. They ask how she reacted, whether she was too emotional, too loud, too messy, too much. Before she has the language for what she is surviving, the town already has a story about her. That was my experience. Before I could breathe, people had already decided who

I never imagined a phone call in the middle of the night could change everything. That night, the sound of my phone ringing at 2 AM shattered the fragile calm I had clung to all day. As a single mom, exhaustion often pushed me to keep going despite my worries. But that night, my instincts screamed something was wrong. What followed was a journey from fear and self-doubt to strength and clarity—a journey every parent can learn from, but i hope you never have to learn the way i

Living with chronic illness changes everything.

When I resigned as an assistant district attorney in Union Parish, Louisiana, in April 2022, I never imagined how quickly my path would twist. I enjoyed the brief months of only having one job—running my civil practice. But by September, I was back working a second full-time job—as a felony public defender in Lincoln Parish. This shift wasn’t just a career change; it was a deep dive into the complexities of criminal law and family ties that run through my blood. My family’s h

Starting out as a female lawyer in a small town comes with its own unique challenges. The expectations, the whispers, the constant feeling of being watched—it’s a lot to carry. Add to that the role of a business owner and a mother, and the balancing act becomes even more complex. This is my story of finding my own path, learning to lead, and raising two beautiful daughters who are already beginning to understand the world through their own eyes. Carving Out My Own Path When m

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