She looked out the window her whole life, the way so many women sit their sadness on an elbow...” -Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street Twelve years later, and I’m still staring off into the distance. Still contemplative. Still searching. … [Read more]
When resolutions feel too small
“We all have the tendency to struggle in our bodies and our minds. We believe that happiness is possible only in the future. That is why the practice ‘I have arrived’ is very important. The realization that we have already arrived, that we don’t have … [Read more]
I won’t force reconciliation just because it’s Christmas
To the person who's choosing to be separate from someone you love during the holidays, I don’t know why you have found yourself in this place. I don’t know how you arrived here. No one has a story exactly like yours. But I find myself standing … [Read more]
When a life ends early, and we go on
I wrote most of this in the month after my 14-year-old former student Liam died by suicide, as I struggled to move through each day and develop a new understanding of the world without him. I share it now as I remember him in the days when we … [Read more]
The radical hope of planning a VBAC
Preparing for this VBAC has felt like a radical act of hope. I say “radical” not because I am putting myself or my baby in physical danger or because a vaginal birth after cesarean is unlikely to happen. Neither is true. I say “radical” because I … [Read more]
My vulnerability in breastfeeding boys after abuse
I will be breastfeeding a boy again. This was one of the first thoughts that popped into my mind after learning that I was pregnant with a second boy. All of a sudden a different feeling occupied my body when I imagined nursing a son rather than a … [Read more]
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