I heard a…thing…today that just ripped my heart to pieces. (It wasn’t a conversation.) Emma has ballet on Thursdays. Emma loves ballet. I love that she loves it. I love that ballet teaches her to move her body and that she’s burning energy by dancing, by enjoying time with her friends and her teacher. I…
9 Things About Netflix’ Stranger Things
Y’all, I finished Netflix’ Stranger Things yesterday and I can’t stop thinking about it. So I thought I’d just throw together a little list of 9 things about Stranger Things because what else do I have occupying my brain right now. I’m trying to be spoiler free here, but I can’t guarantee you won’t be able to…
Thoughts On the First Day of School
In the past I’ve written Joshua a little letter about the first day back to school, some wayward notion that what I’ve been doing online for the past 8 years or so has been for him to look back on and remember fondly when he’s old and I’m dead. That’s…yeah. That’s a thing I’m not…
The Social Media Narrative of Motherhood: How the Internet Responds to Tragedy
[This post may be triggering for some readers. YMMV.] It seems the media has been rife with stories of mothers who have harmed or fatally wounded their children this week. The social media narrative surrounding it all is about to make me crazy. A mom in Texas shot her daughters during a “family meeting” because…
Why I Climb | Climb Out of the Darkness 2016
We’re FOUR DAYS AWAY from the 2016 Climb Out of the Darkness. Four days away from the third year in a row where I’ll join postpartum depression survivors, locally and globally, to raise awareness of an illness which will affect 1 in 7 moms. If you want to know why I climb, there’s little else…