Guest Posts, motherhood
Unicorn: on Loss, Jealousy, and Value
“I don’t know how you do it!” along with a sigh of approval. And once, a woman smiled from ear to ear, and said, “Five kids? You’re a unicorn!”
March 9, 2024Latest Posts
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Guest Posts, medicalSocial History
When I returned home and accessed my records all those years ago, it was the first time I realized that the taking of my own “social history” had not only been avoided; it had been fabricated.
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Guest Posts, Kindness, Self CareLemon Joy Tart
The Lemon Joy Tart is a hedge against the sadder dishes life will inevitably prepare for you.
February 29, 2024 -
Guest Posts, Letting Go, NatureWaterfalls
I’ve always felt drawn to the mountains, often quipping they’re my happy place. I feel different when I’m surrounded by nature. Calmer. Like I belong.
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Family, Guest PostsTwo Dads and a Lump of Clay
I open the bag of clay and an odor redolent of summer rain on black soil envelops me. I’m comforted by this ancient material, a mixture of earth and water that has been around since (at least) the third day of the world.
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Grief, Guest Posts, parentsDeath and Jeggings
My dad ate slowly, elongating the time I had to stress out about leaving him there. The truth is, I don’t want to leave him anywhere. Ever. But a lot of him has left us at this point and we don’t have a choice.
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Activism, Guest PostsEating Animals: Confessions of a French Hypocrite
200 million animals are slaughtered for food every day worldwide and yet normal persons living normal lives will never set foot on a factory farm.
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Guest Posts, storytelling, TravelsOde to the Motel
Scholars disagree on when the first motel appeared, but by 1935 America boasted nearly 10,000, and that was just for starters.
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Guest Posts, RelationshipsThis is where it ends
There was the person I was, and then the person I was with my mother. I hid the parts of me I thought might disappoint her.
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Guest Posts, parentingTwenty-Three Loads of Laundry
On the way to the restaurant, we catch up on this and that, but no mention of his state of mind or what I had witnessed in his room.
January 13, 2024