Marissa Doyle is the Managing Editor of Blog Daily Life. Her byline currently appears across lifestyle, relationships, family stories, analysis, entertainment, health and wellness, and practical everyday content. She is the named editor responsible for editorial oversight on Blog Daily Life.
The night my nine daughters showed up unannounced on the anniversary of the woman I never stopped loving, I thought we were…
For an entire year after we adopted Noah, he never said a single word, and just when we convinced ourselves that silence…
The first time someone called me “just the pastor’s daughter,” I smiled like it didn’t matter, but by the time graduation day…
When my nineteen-year-old son sent me a message that simply said, “I’m sorry, Mom,” and then turned off his phone, I tried…
I didn’t learn the hardest lesson about family the day my sister destroyed my brand-new car—I learned it three weeks later, when…
The moment my mother-in-law suddenly offered to babysit my daughter, I didn’t feel relieved—I felt uneasy, the kind of quiet instinct that…
The day my fourteen-year-old daughter walked through our front door pushing a stroller with two newborn babies inside, I thought I had…
I didn’t start recording my husband because I was paranoid—I did it because something in my gut refused to stay quiet any…
I thought the hardest part of my wedding day would be walking down the aisle without thinking about my late wife, but…
The day was supposed to be simple. Nothing fancy—just the six of us gathered around the table, laughing over a homemade cake…
