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The Nursing Mama’s Best Friend
There are a lot of things to love about breastfeeding, but one thing I didn’t particularly care for was just how much time I spent doing it at the beginning. A fellow Stroller Strides mama is expecting...
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The stories of our own lives require active searching—learning to look through our memories in a new way. To find story in your life, you must engage imagination with memory; you must invent a line of...
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On Writing, and Being Known
“You certainly have a way with words… when you take your time,” my 11th grade US History teacher said as he handed my paper on Hemingway back to me, a big red “A” scrawled on top. Writing has always...
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On Achieving Iced Coffee Perfection
I love coffee. Kinda. It’s probably more accurate to say I like coffee-flavored milk. Which is where my Starbucks Gold Card comes in. Nothing I make at home tastes quite as good as what I can get for...
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BOB 2016 Stroller Strides Fitness Stroller Review
I recently upgraded our stroller and since E and I are both thoroughly obsessed with it, I thought I would share our BOB 2016 Stroller Strides Fitness Stroller review. When E was about 4 months old, I...
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On ex-boyfriends, and making art
He was the first guy (but not the last, thankfully) that I didn’t find completely boring. This isn’t his real name, but for the purposes of this story, let’s call him Vlad. I fell for him hard and...
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Once through, cleanly
I mentioned in my last post that I’ve started working on a memoir. I don’t know if anything will come from it and I’m trying not to think about that right now. The first draft was as effortless as...
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The Artist’s Way / week one
“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.” -Joseph Chilton Pearce I’ve unexpectedly found myself working through Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way. I’ve attempted to make it...
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My Year in Books / 2018
2018 was a good reading year for me. Possibly because it was a very rough year. Books were integral to my self-care, especially over the summer when my anxiety was at its peak. I’d often get in bed as...
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The Artist’s Way / week 2
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers. -Brenda Ueland My trend of waking up at 5 am has continued, which means I’m still...
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