A Letter to My Children

A Letter to My Children

To my children: When you were born, so was I. Never had I been a mother of a daughter, then a mother of a son, and then a mother of three. In every moment since you’ve been here, I’ve been learning. Life sort of takes on a gravity that surpasses what exists in our...
Thank You, September

Thank You, September

It is mid-September and you lay in bed and try your best to fight back tears. Just go to sleep. Your mind is a busy factory pumping out unwanted thoughts at a frantic pace.  You think about how only two people came to your daughter’s birthday party, how composed...
Dear Reader

Dear Reader

Dear Reader I just want to sit down with you and talk. Lately, my daughter has been working through an exercise in self-trust. It involves boundaries and privacy and Being honest about needing space. It involves learning to honor oneself before the image other’s hold...
Embracing Your Humanity in Motherhood

Embracing Your Humanity in Motherhood

This week, I’ve been giving my alarm clock the metaphorical middle finger. I am under the weather, and so are my kids, and it’s spring break. Last week was the first week of daylight savings, and after 7 days of feeling extraordinarily exhausted, my body succumbed to...