Despite the still warm days and brilliant colors, I feel the anxiety of winter stealing my ability to just fall into the graces of...
For a number of years, I parented from a very broken place.
(I never realized the time was going by and that I couldn't get...
Sometimes I can't turn it off.
The hum in my head keeps swift tempo with an ever changing list of do's and don'ts, subtly morphing...
The First Hour after Birth: A Baby’s 9 Instinctive Stages
So much effort is devoted to preparing for labor and birth throughout pregnancy, but what...
To be honest, you won’t know right away.
When you find your child lying on the ground beside her bike with no obvious injury, you...
Being a parent of a child with ADD/ADHD can feel isolating.
As with any perceived difference, however slight, you feel like the only parent that’s...
I went to a physical recently. I haven't seen my primary care doctor, whom I love, since I became pregnant and gave birth to...
I’m 33 weeks pregnant and recently was having signs of early labor, after an afternoon being monitored, they determined baby was staying put for...
I miss the years where my two year old would throw herself on the ground and throw the most epic fits to try to...
Living in Vermont, sometimes it feels like I live in a liberal bubble.
Dictionary.com defines Liberalism as “a political or social philosophy advocating the freedom...
“I think I’m psychic,” I said to my logical, skeptical, mathematical husband, “or a medium, or something.”
“Oh yeah?” he said nonchalantly.
Though he’d never outright...
This year I am really trying not to be swept away in the "holiday frenzy" that typically seems to happen over the upcoming weeks.
I...
I can clearly remember Thanksgiving at my grandmother's house when I was growing up.
The table was nearly too long for the dining area, and...
“Almost done!”
That’s what everyone keeps telling me, but pregnancy has a funny way of messing with time. Days seem longer, weeks are anxiously marked...
In + Around Vermont
The UVM Men’s Soccer National Championship Matters to Vermont Families
Late into the evening on Monday, December 16, I lay in bed while my three kids were asleep, watching the Men’s National Collegiate Soccer...
