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okay it’s early Thursday morning here… but we can all agree that ‘Wednesday’ is really just a state of mind, right?  also… my computer is on it’s way out but I’m in major denial. Right now the tab at the top of my page is a blur of black and white pixels like static on…

Warning: there is a baby drinking milk (for the first time!) at the end of this post. Sometimes this makes people mad. As soon as Luke was born, after an incredible, harrowing, most-empowering-and-also-terrifying-experience-of-my-life labor, we learned that he had aspirated meconium. A common condition, but also a life threatening one, he was almost immediately whisked off…

I’m off schedule here but you can’t get mad at me because A) I had the world’s worst stomach bug and B) It’s my birthday! And! It’s March! March can be a tricky month in the good ol’ Northeast because you feel like you are deserving of spring weather and it can be oh so…

A year ago my friend Katie wrote an email on a cold, dark February day wondering why she hadn’t made plans to ride out February from somewhere sunnier. Last February was particularly cold and dark in the Northeast, but for Katie who had recently lost her husband, Kris, it was about as cold and dark…

When I was a classroom teacher, I would talk about kindness at least once a day. I spent so much time and energy cultivating it amongst my students and taking oh so many deep breaths to practice it myself- all. day. long. But I spent so much less energy on being kind to myself. The patience,…