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In the hospital on the day after our daughter was born, a nurse knocks on the door. She needs to do a hearing test on the baby. The nurse greets our daughter’s mom in the hospital bed. Then she looks...
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Here Where I Live: Poverty, Responsibility & Other People’s Kids
I meant to tell you this days ago. In fact, for the past week I have been falling asleep writing this blog post in my head. But: the girl has been unimaginably fussy (rash on her torso? teething?), my...
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Motherhood & the Meaning of Life
This weekend I sat in a circle of women. Wise women who gathered to support my amazing friend, a spiritual guide and companion, who is seeking to expand her practice. The circle included spiritual...
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Not a Letter to My Daughter on International Women’s Day
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I’ve needed to write for a while, but I haven’t had the guts. Our family has been struggling and a lot of it is confidential, so it is a challenge to sort out what parts are my story to tell and what...
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Tightrope Walking the Line of Integrity
So I went “back to work” (in quotes because I’ve been nothing if not working since our daughter was born). I went back to the kind of work where you leave the house in clothes that aren’t stained and...
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Being the ‘Other Mother’ (sort of)
In the hospital on the day after our daughter was born, a nurse knocks on the door. She needs to do a hearing test on the baby. The nurse greets our daughter’s mom in the hospital bed. Then she looks...
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Here Where I Live: Poverty, Responsibility & Other People’s Kids
I meant to tell you this days ago. In fact, for the past week I have been falling asleep writing this blog post in my head. But: the girl has been unimaginably fussy (rash on her torso? teething?), my...
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Motherhood & the Meaning of Life
This weekend I sat in a circle of women. Wise women who gathered to support my amazing friend, a spiritual guide and companion, who is seeking to expand her practice. The circle included spiritual...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Not a Letter to My Daughter on International Women’s Day
It’s International Women’s Day, and there are so many excellent letters from fathers and mothers to their daughters currently trending on the interwebs. Reading them, I realize how much of what I might...
View ArticleAdoption: We Need a Better Way
I’ve needed to write for a while, but I haven’t had the guts. Our family has been struggling and a lot of it is confidential, so it is a challenge to sort out what parts are my story to tell and what...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tightrope Walking the Line of Integrity
So I went “back to work” (in quotes because I’ve been nothing if not working since our daughter was born). I went back to the kind of work where you leave the house in clothes that aren’t stained and...
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