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1/Work. There is a lot of it and my time is pressured and short. 2/Home. We have to find a new one. 3/Loss. I feel like I’ve lost more than…

Dear Dadadadad, It’s your birthday. To celebrate, I talk to you. Happy Birthday. You would be seventy-seven today. Seventy-seven?!?! Seventy-seven. I’m sure you’d snort at the notion and say something…

Yesterday, finally, after notbeingabletoleavetheofficetogoandcollectit becauselifeissoinsaneattheofficeicanhardlystoptoputaspacein… I came home with what has got to be one of the world’s largest boxes. In it, presents, for Cam and I, from Angel and…

So, someone asked me why I didn’t make a speech at my own birthday. Truth is, I didn’t want to. Truth is, with everything that’s happened in the last year,…

I am thirty, and I am totally okay with it. I am loved, beyond all sphere of my former imagination. I am blessed, in ways I could never have expected.…

To rest. My mother. In ritual and in heart, she is at rest. Dancing with my dad. Smiling at us. Laughing once again. My soul. Cuddled between friends, who made…

precious moment… was reading this to Cameron with my mom on Sunday. i was so tired. eyes falling out of my sockets tired. but it was one of my alltime…

Whilst Cam was sick yesterday (she had croup. it’s horrible. especially waking up and wondering where the tractor noise is coming from inside your house, and realising it’s coming from…

1. When my mom said, yesterday, whilst her and Cam and I were cuddled up on her bed, reading the Three Little Pigs: “you’re a strict mom. you’re raising a…

A while ago…it feels like a lifetime and a half ago, now… I  wrote something for Parent24. Some people didn’t like it much. I hated that time in my life.…