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I write about Motherhood, Career, Feminism & Social Justice issues. I also write poems sometimes.

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Linh Smooke 6/4/20 Linh Smooke 6/4/20

Letter to my daughter

My dearest daughter,

The first time I wrote a public letter to you, I was 4 months pregnant with you, not knowing your gender yet fixating in my heart you were a girl, on November 9, 2016. That was the day after the United States of America…

Linh Smooke 5/13/18 Linh Smooke 5/13/18

When they say you are a good mother

“Good? That’s all you’ve got?”
I mean
A bright sunny day is good;

Linh Smooke 11/9/16 Linh Smooke 11/9/16

To My Future Baby Girl

Dearest darling,

Okay – I must admit. I don’t even know if you will be a girl yet. We will find out very soon next week, after my second trimester ultrasound. But in my heart, you are.