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Continue reading →: Let’s Chat – Quitting Instagram, How I Approach Substack, and Where to Find My Stories
It’s been nearly four years since I gave up Instagram. You want to know my breaking point? One day while flipping through Stories, someone was talking passionately about gun control and then her next slide was about growing tomatoes. And the whiplash of gun control to tomatoes took me out.…
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Continue reading →: Counting My Blessings Like Sheep & Spiraling
When I was first pregnant with my son I was so scared of the joy. That wrestling with joy would continue into those early years as I soaked up the light and happiness of motherhood. I was not accustomed to such lightness having experienced the deep pain of infertility for…
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Continue reading →: Don’t Take Me Back – the painful side of social media’s 2016 trend
2016 is trending;but it’s the year that markedthe years to comeof lifewithout a babythe year I didnt knowthat I would startto die. 2016 is trending;it’d be a long and painfulburialmonth by monthby month bymonth—this is what it’s liketo diewhen you arestill alive. (But are you?) I can’t get backthere.Nor do I…
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Continue reading →: What Dreams Are Made Of – a poem for turning 31
Like everyone who ever turns 30 and then 31 and then 32, you realize how un-old that actually turns out to be. Of course, there is the reality of getting older and I think you become more generally and practically aware of your humanity and that you won’t be young…



