There are some devastating aspects of parenting.
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There are some devastating aspects of parenting.
"Talk with your children about loss. Share in their joy, and teach them about the cyclical beauty of life.
"I stood where my Dad took his last breath. I stood and held you, my growing child and felt your breathing. Your steady, consistent, sleeping breath. I know how fragile life is. And I don't run away from it. You can't. Isolation is more painful than living and loving deeply knowing it can all be gone far sooner than you'd expect, or want, or think. "...
This ones for you.
On feedback and how we can use it to combat the mommy wars.
Talking about the desperation I sometimes feel to ensure my kid is a "good one" and how that means I have to be too.
An ode to world breastfeeding written in a Dr. Suess inspired prose.
Owning up to some Fake-Stagramming
Perspective on parenting...and road biking.
In which the day doesn't turn out how I wanted, but I roll with it... and Ava is adorable.
The messy reality of a different path for education
In witness of her growth.
On Ava, and moments I don't want to forget.
Two years, but still rings true. Leaving them is never easy.