Meilan Carter-Gilkey Remembers Being The Other Mommy
October 28th, 2013 | by Meilan Carter-Gilkey
“I want you to be that mommy!” In seven words my three year old split my life in two. We
About Meilan Carter-Gilkey
Meilan Carter-Gilkey
Meilan Carter-Gilkey is a wife, and mother of two sons sixteen years apart. She became a poet and writer at seven, a single mother at twenty, a college graduate at thirty-two, a caretaker of her dying father at thirty-three, a recipient of an MFA at thirty-four, a wife at thirty-five, a mother again at thirty-six and a caretaker of her mother at thirty-eight. She very recently turned forty and renewed her goal to make writing a true priority and created a blog, 2nd Life: Balancing Motherhood, Writing and Sanity. Her work has been published in the anthology Who’s Your Mama?: The Voices of Unsung Women and Mothers, the Womanist and Shield Magazine. To read more of Meilan’s work please visit mcartgilk.tumblr.com.