Motherhood

Gardens

Each season of your life will pass. It will yield seeds to plant. You can grow more pain or you can grow healing. You will repeat this all your life. You will forever be practicing how to choose things that feel make you feel whole. This is being human.

Motherhood

One by One

Back in 2016, I wrote a letter to my daughters. It was just after the Orlando nightclub shooting. I built on it, yesterday and today. You don't realize how big a piece being afraid is part of parenthood. Fear is a piece of our human experience and the way it can drive behaviors is amazing… Continue reading One by One

Modern Family · Motherhood · parenthood

Dear Six and Brave

I write the girls a love letter for their birthdays every year. Lately, they've been belated. "Without bravery, you will never know the world as richly as it longs to be known." - Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert Dear Dimples, In the middle of a wet and raw Spring beginning, you have started your sixth year… Continue reading Dear Six and Brave