New post over at elephant journal. Stuff I learned the hard way about how to help when someone is grieving. Thanks for reading!
I’m super crazy excited to be featured on Brain, Child’s website this week. Please check it out!
New post over at elephant journal. I’ve been trying to write about my dear friend for years. All of a sudden, the words came.
Did I mention I recently attended an amazing conference on blogging? I was fortunate to attend BlogU14, which was hosted and led by a group of mega successful bloggers like the ones behind Baby Sideburns and Bad Parenting Moments. The faculty was generous and humble, and the overall feeling of the weekend—which went by wayyyy […]
Last week wrapped up with a medical emergency with a close family member. I spent time sitting in hospital rooms, alternating between cracking jokes and worrying. It all turned out as well as it could have, but there is something about entering a hospital that re-centers me. It reminds me that my day, my […]
On the bus to Boston, I feel free. It’s just me, a book of essays, and my iPhone. No diaper bags. No little feet trailing me into the narrow, dark bus bathroom. I sit and listen to the breathing meditation from the mindfulness class I just started. I breathe in. I breathe out. In […]
“Have you thought about what you want to do for your birthday?” my mom asked. Again. “I don’t know, Mom!” I said, an edge of my 16-year-old self surfacing. I’ve been grinding my teeth about turning 40 for at least the last year. The closer it got, the more I talked about it. It became […]
Last fall, I was struck by unexpected the urge to run. I was walking through the sprawling cemetery near my house like I’ve done for years, when suddenly my body wanted to move fast. At 39 years old, I felt a bit ripe to start such a venture. I was always the kid picked last […]
“Mama, what does ‘embarrassing’ mean?” my son asks. We’ve just read a chapter of one of the Magic Treehouse books are and snuggled into his bed. Like with many of his questions, this one makes me feel momentarily like an idiot. I remember thinking my parents knew all the answers to everything. I am […]
“Motherhood is a spiritual path that is not always kind or gentle, it breaks you wide open. Labor and birth is the best metaphor I know of for what lies ahead. Motherhood is a process of growing up, and trying to be a grownup that you like being.” —Leah Deragon, Founding Director of Birth Roots Perinatal Resource […]