Margaret Whitford ✍️
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Margaret Whitford ✍️
@margaretwhitford.bsky.social
#Author, My debut memoir, The History We Carry: A Daughter's Memoir (She Writes Press, 2026), explores the cost of silence and how we rise beyond what shapes us. #France #Travel #binders

https://margaretwhitford.com
💚 Motherhood Is Another Country, One That I Will Never Know by @MargaretWhitford.bsky.social https://buff.ly/n9Z1LDF

“Do you have children?” is a question I’ve grown used to hearing when I meet someone for the first time. Yet after all these years, I still hesitate over my answer.

#Memoir
November 28, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Happy Thanksgiving!

#Thanksgiving2025
November 27, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Gilbert and Annie, [our] Jack Russell terriers, came into our lives as puppies. They were both strong-willed, energetic, and highly intelligent. I always thought that we negotiated with rather than trained them.

~ @MargaretWhitford.bsky.social

#Love #PetStories
November 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🐶 What Our Two Jack Russell Terriers Taught Me About Compassion and Joy | MargaretWhitford,.bsky.social vist.ly/4ftwu

Gilbert and Annie, Jack Russell terriers, came into our lives as puppies. They were both strong-willed, energetic, and highly intelligent.

#MondayBlogs #Pets #Dogs
November 24, 2025 at 8:14 PM
💚 Motherhood Is Another Country, One That I Will Never Know by @MargaretWhitford.bsky.social https://buff.ly/n9Z1LDF

“Do you have children?” is a question I’ve grown used to hearing when I meet someone for the first time. Yet after all these years, I still hesitate over my answer.

#MondayBlogs
November 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Traveling the Familiar: Why Certain Places Feel Like Home | @MargaretWhitford.bsky.social https://buff.ly/wQeAi78

In The Reader, the protagonist comments that he once believed he should be more adventurous in his travel, so he explored countries and cities he might not have visited.

#MondayBlogs
November 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
💚 Finding Refuge in Marriage: Turning a Painful Past into Lifetime Love | @MargaretWhitford.bsky.social https://buff.ly/iGS23F4

Refuge can refer to shelter or protection from danger or distress, but it can also refer to a feeling of being seen and cherished, of belonging.

#MondayBlogs
November 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Losing [my mother] would have made us orphans, but that was not her primary concern. She feared losing herself.

@MargaretWhitford.bsky.social 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙃𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙒𝙚 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙮: 𝘼 𝘿𝙖𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙚𝙧’𝙨 𝙈𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙞𝙧
November 21, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Refuge may be found in places, in community, in relationships, in whatever nourishes the human spirit.

~ @MargaretWhitford.bsky.social "Finding Refuge in Marriage: Turning a Painful Past into Lifetime Love"

#Memoir
November 19, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🐶 What Our Two Jack Russell Terriers Taught Me About Compassion and Joy | MargaretWhitford,.bsky.social vist.ly/4evzd

Gilbert and Annie, Jack Russell terriers, came into our lives as puppies. They were both strong-willed, energetic, and highly intelligent.

#MondayBlogs #Pets #Dogs
November 17, 2025 at 8:14 PM
💚 Motherhood Is Another Country, One That I Will Never Know by @MargaretWhitford.bsky.social https://buff.ly/n9Z1LDF

“Do you have children?” is a question I’ve grown used to hearing when I meet someone for the first time. Yet after all these years, I still hesitate over my answer.

#MondayBlogs
November 17, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Traveling the Familiar: Why Certain Places Feel Like Home | @MargaretWhitford.bsky.social https://buff.ly/wQeAi78

In The Reader, the protagonist comments that he once believed he should be more adventurous in his travel, so he explored countries and cities he might not have visited.

#MondayBlogs
November 17, 2025 at 1:04 PM
💚 Finding Refuge in Marriage: Turning a Painful Past into Lifetime Love | @MargaretWhitford.bsky.social https://buff.ly/iGS23F4

Refuge can refer to shelter or protection from danger or distress, but it can also refer to a feeling of being seen and cherished, of belonging.

#MondayBlogs
November 17, 2025 at 10:00 AM
There is an element of optimism in making clothes, especially the elegant ones my mother crafted. The garments represented an investment in the future.

@MargaretWhitford.bsky.social, 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙃𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙒𝙚 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙮: 𝘼 𝘿𝙖𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙚𝙧’𝙨 𝙈𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙞𝙧 (2026 SheWritesPress)

#Memoir #Trauma
November 14, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Refuge can refer to shelter or protection from danger or distress, but it can also refer to a feeling of being seen and cherished, of belonging.

~ @MargaretWhitford.bsky.social "Finding Refuge in Marriage: Turning a Painful Past into Lifetime Love"

#Memoir
November 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
💚 Motherhood Is Another Country, One That I Will Never Know by @MargaretWhitford.bsky.social https://buff.ly/n9Z1LDF

“Do you have children?” is a question I’ve grown used to hearing when I meet someone for the first time. Yet after all these years, I still hesitate over my answer.

#MondayBlogs
November 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Traveling the Familiar: Why Certain Places Feel Like Home | @MargaretWhitford.bsky.social https://buff.ly/wQeAi78

In The Reader, the protagonist comments that he once believed he should be more adventurous in his travel, so he explored countries and cities he might not have visited.

#MondayBlogs
November 10, 2025 at 1:04 PM
💚 Finding Refuge in Marriage: Turning a Painful Past into Lifetime Love | @MargaretWhitford.bsky.social https://buff.ly/iGS23F4

Refuge can refer to shelter or protection from danger or distress, but it can also refer to a feeling of being seen and cherished, of belonging.

#MondayBlogs
November 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM
I believed that if I did not need anyone, I would not be disappointed. If I could not be touched, I would remain safe. If no one knew my deepest feelings and thoughts, they would remain mine.

@MargaretWhitford.bsky.social 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙃𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙒𝙚 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙮: 𝘼 𝘿𝙖𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙚𝙧’𝙨 𝙈𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙞𝙧
November 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Home encompasses the structures we inhabit and the physical geography of a specific place, as well as the intimate landscape of the heart and spirit. 

~ @MargaretWhitford.bsky.social 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙃𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙒𝙚 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙮: 𝘼 𝘿𝙖𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙚𝙧’𝙨 𝙈𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙞𝙧 (June 2026 SheWritesPress)

#Memoir
November 5, 2025 at 9:59 AM
💚 Motherhood Is Another Country, One That I Will Never Know by @MargaretWhitford.bsky.social https://buff.ly/n9Z1LDF

“Do you have children?” is a question I’ve grown used to hearing when I meet someone for the first time. Yet after all these years, I still hesitate over my answer.

#MondayBlogs
November 3, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Traveling the Familiar: Why Certain Places Feel Like Home | @MargaretWhitford.bsky.social https://buff.ly/wQeAi78

In The Reader, the protagonist comments that he once believed he should be more adventurous in his travel, so he explored countries and cities he might not have visited.

#MondayBlogs
November 3, 2025 at 1:04 PM
💚 Finding Refuge in Marriage: Turning a Painful Past into Lifetime Love | @MargaretWhitford.bsky.social https://buff.ly/iGS23F4

Refuge can refer to shelter or protection from danger or distress, but it can also refer to a feeling of being seen and cherished, of belonging.

#MondayBlogs
November 3, 2025 at 9:59 AM
As a child, I remained the reserved one, the observer rather than participant, the child apart.

@MargaretWhitford.bsky.social, 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙃𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙒𝙚 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙮: 𝘼 𝘿𝙖𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙚𝙧’𝙨 𝙈𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙞𝙧 (2026 SheWritesPress)

#Memoir #Excerpt #Trauma
October 31, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Scarcity can engender its own kind of beauty, because we recognize with deeper clarity what remains.

~ @MargaretWhitford.bsky.social 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙃𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙒𝙚 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙮: 𝘼 𝘿𝙖𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙚𝙧’𝙨 𝙈𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙞𝙧 (June 2026 @SheWritesPress)

#Memoir
October 29, 2025 at 9:00 AM