20
Dec
It will come as no surprise to anyone who has spent more than an hour with me that I am a big fan of reading lists. Odds are, if we’ve ever...
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30
Nov
I’ve had a headache for days.
Six days, I think. Maybe seven. I think that it started when Lily’s decline became obvious, when it became clear that we were going to...
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2
Aug
I don't remember when I stopped writing about ordinary life as a mom. I actually think that it was a long time ago, longer than you would think. I may...
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26
Jun
The other week, Glennon Doyle Melton - who I love - tweeted that she doesn’t let her kids use social media. I know that she’s not alone in this. Lots of...
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7
Sep
Here's a question that I've been thinking a lot about: what does it mean to say that you have purpose? Or that you have a purpose? Do you have to...
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30
Aug
Some years ago I heard Abigail Disney speak about her documentary films and about her belief in the importance of telling women's stories. She had made a film about women and war, she...
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14
Aug
I don't know about you, but I am finding the world to be a wearying and discouraging place these days. More than that: terrible, maddening, heartbreaking.
Racism. Sexism. Environmental crisis. Every...
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1
Aug
What about your apocalypse then? Well, the universe is a leaf on a time-tree, and come autumn it's going to shrivel and fall off into hell. -- China Mieville, Kraken
There's...
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11
Jul
This past weekend, my mom was evacuated from her home in British Columbia due to wildfires. She's still evacuated; she knows that her home is still standing, but the fires...
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4
Jul
It was going to be our last canoe trip before moving to the US; to say that we were looking forward to it would be a gross understatement. We loved...
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