Confession time: I am 36 years old, and I still struggle with the "appropriate" way to grieve.
How can I expect to teach my children...
January 5th, 2015, I started menopause. I was 36 years old, a wife and mother of two small kids.
Most of us can remember the...
I've had three beautiful babies in less than four years. I don't have to spend more than a breath explaining the life changes that...
I have always been a hair experimenter.
It has been long and short, and nearly every color occurring in nature. I was not blessed with...
I don’t want to talk to my children.
Being around them is exhausting me. I am not talking about the old school exhaustion when babies...
When you have a premature baby, your life becomes punctuated with numbers.
It took me 4 years to get pregnant. That’s 48 negative pregnancy tests...
I keep thinking about how our society is going through these super rapid changes due to the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19. I don't...
My kneecap grinds into the slightly corrugated metal bleacher and I am acutely aware of both my physical and my emotional discomfort. Both rise...
In January 2020, we didn't anticipate that COVID-19 would be impacting us for years. Yet here we are, starting 2022 with several COVID vaccines,...
1} Stop using the phrase “picky eater.”
Guilty as charged. But when I saw how the phrase was starting to effect not only my own pre-schooler's...
My son was diagnosed with autism.
He was diagnosed the day before his third birthday and with that diagnosis, joined the ranks of millions of...
Mario…. I’m really sorry.
The disembodied voice came over the phone at 2 pm in the middle of a busy ER where, just moments before,...
My maternal grandmother lived with my mother, father, and me during most of my childhood. I remember her never being satisfied with her appearance...
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I love what...
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Winter in Vermont
It is late fall and the temperature drops just enough for the precipitation to turn from pestery rain into beautiful, soft, magical snowflakes and...
