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Mary Wakefield

Why I’m telling my son about the sky fairy

10 December 2016

9:00 AM

10 December 2016

9:00 AM

After we were married, my husband and I went on honeymoon to Mexico. We drove across country east to west, then north to Mexico City, to the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe where I prayed for a baby. My husband, the least judgmental of atheists, sat happy in the babble of ladies all talking loudly, conversationally, to God.

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