Hi! I’m Violet Carol. Welcome to Mother Love Letters, my Substack publication home to intimate and confessional writings on motherhood, womanhood, and identity.

I’m a mom. I’m also a wife, a daughter, a sister, a writer, a bookworm, a lover of puffy dresses and Spring, a hater of spiders and Winter, and a thousand other selves. I write about them all against the backdrop of motherhood.

On Mother Love Letters, you’ll find posts in the form of:

💌 Personal Essays: big feelings about the human experience in long-form prose.

📝 Poetry: ripped edges for saucy days, lullabies for softer days. Poetry is for traveling through, or stopping, time.

🌃 Nightcaps: too tired to read a lengthy post? I also write flash essays called Nightcaps that you can read in three minutes or less.

🗯️ Mothers! Assemble: a series of collective essays created to highlight personal stories from readers about our shared experiences in pregnancy and motherhood.

About Me 🎀

I hold a BA in International Studies and Political Science from the University of Florida and a JD from Santa Clara Law. I used to run a solo practice, but now I work part-time as a lawyer lady so I can spend more time with my daughter.

I write mostly on motherhood, womanhood, and identity — as well as love and time. My work here on Mother Love Letters is primarily creative nonfiction, but I’m also working on several thematic poetry collections and literary fiction manuscripts with a touch of romance and magic outside of Substack.

How to Subscribe 💌

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I publish mostly on Tuesday mornings and occasionally on Friday mornings.

Whether you’re just stopping by, reading a post, or sharing Mother Love Letters with a loved one, I sincerely appreciate you supporting my work.