It’s a question I ask myself almost everyday, and I will try to answer here: 1. Because I’ve been thinking about my childhood a lot these days. I guess it’s inevitable; my daughters are 3-and-a-half and one-and-a-half-years old, and I often find myself comparing their experiences to mine. Horses dominated my childhood. My mother says […]
Category Archives: Children
This Horrible, Beautiful Day
It’s been one of those days—when beauty and horror break against each other, when at one moment the world seems startlingly cruel but gentle the next.
2014: A Year
Reflection is an important part of preserving memory—of learning and evolving, of taking inventory. Counting blessings, so to speak, making a list and checking it twice. I’ve been inspired by the season to reflect on 2014—its joys and disappointments, regrets and surprises, of new lives coming in and old ones transitioning to whatever’s next, divinity or dust, or an unimaginable somewhere else.
New Baby Reminders: A Note to my Future Self
In about five weeks—September 15 or thereabouts—I will be giving birth to a baby. A girl, likely a Virgo, with a predicted weight of 7ish pounds…