Shout Out To The He People: We Love Good Men
Oh, men. You manly things, you. I know I don’t blog too often about you, and I’ve lots of partnered readers who are very grateful for the testosterone in their lives. And dads need and deserve as much...
View ArticleThis Is How Life Looks When Your Face Is In The Dirt
Oh, the dirt. This is how life looks when your face is in the dirt. When you’ve fallen, and it’s not your first fall, and you’re kind of sick of it, so you sorta just stay down a minute. Close your...
View ArticleMy Ryleigh, Today You Are Nine!
Ryleigh! What is this? Your birthday?! YOU’RE NINE? I swear I just watched your first steps, That first time. You were just two years old, Tiny teeth, chubby hands. And now here you are, A big girl...
View ArticleI’m Playing A Game: Society vs. Attachment
I’m playing a game: The card I’ve drawn says I’m Government – I have a Society and to win the game I have to figure out how I can keep my society from being fulfilled, mainly emotionally (because that...
View ArticleI Don’t Understand, So I’ll Let You Be
Oh, the outfits, Logan. The outfits. I don’t know what’s up with you and these - outfits. Why do you change clothes so often? Why do you like certain pieces so much more than others? I truly don’t...
View ArticleSaturday & Self-esteem
Ryleigh, Logan and I stood at our bathroom sink early one Saturday morning, singing an Alicia Keys song they probably shouldn’t really know. We belted it out until we didn’t know anymore words like we...
View ArticleFumbling Around In The Dark
Anxiety. Waking up in the morning and feeling that sinking feeling in your stomach, the one you know means your mind has so many thoughts on it that some of them haven’t yet processed and reached you;...
View ArticleSunflower
Found this on the page, from September: And some days you have a moment where you lie back and close your eyes and realize you’re laughing and don’t know why. You rack your brain and can only bring up...
View ArticleNursing In Public
Yup, that’s me: That hippie chick chillin’ at the back of the bus. Might catch Creedence from my headphones if the volume’s turned up enough. Toddler nursing at my right breast, eldest writing to my...
View ArticleThey Say My Toddler Acts Like A Baby
They say my toddler acts like a baby because she still sleeps with me. They say my toddler acts like a baby because she still nurses to sleep. They say my toddler acts like a baby because she “forgets...
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