When We Were Widows

by Annette Chavez Macias

Habits can either save you or kill you.

I had a bad habit of shutting people out when I didn’t feel like baring my soul—or being judged about what my soul would expose about me.

Sometimes we have to do things we’ve never done in order to grow. Because when you stop growing, you die.”

“The past is the past, Ana. The only thing you have the power to change is the present.