Last Monday, I was spiraling into an abyss of resistance. My husband is gone for a month of week-days, working most weekends and I had not had a moment to myself in ages. The refrain I sang throughout the day was “I need a break.”…
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Oona is going through some growing pains right now. She is learning new skills, and this precipice of new-ness has her feeling ill-at-ease: wanting physical contact with me during her waking hours, being less careful and more day-dreamy, waking at night full of tears, the…
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I am unbelievably grateful for my daughter. Simply being a mother has stretched me in ways I never knew existed, has tired me in places I scarcely knew I had, but above all has illuminated a way of being, a way of loving that has…
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