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As my kindergartner came bounding through the door back from the park, she seemed ecstatic to tell me all about…
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As my kindergartner came bounding through the door back from the park, she seemed ecstatic to tell me all about…
Continue ReadingI’ll never forget it. I was a high school freshman and we were in the middle of a heated basketball…
Continue ReadingI used to be a person who measured. I felt accomplished checking tasks off a list or beating the estimated…
Continue Reading“…so when we run the 6-2, I shift to the front after serve receive, but for the 5-1 it’s different,…
Continue ReadingMy baby is going to kindergarten, and I am not going to cry. Yep, you read that right. My blessing…
Continue Reading'Twas the night before kindergarten and all through the house, He slept while I cried, voice squeaking like a mouse.…
Continue ReadingThere I was, a new mother thinking I was getting an early start to the activity of swimming by introducing…
Continue ReadingWhen I became a mother, I had all these hopes and dreams for my children. And as they grew, those…
Continue ReadingI cheered for my daughter this weekend. She plays soccer, and I’m the mom who yells things like: GOOD JOB!…
Continue ReadingI’m an elder millennial—meaning I grew up with non-extravagant summers filled with Slip 'N Slides hooked up to water hoses,…
Continue ReadingI have a vivid memory of tentatively walking toward the little pink sleepers hanging in Nordstrom. I gently lifted one…
Continue ReadingTime. It's a weird thing. It passes ever-so-quickly. It’s a thief in the night. Yet somehow it stands still. It never…
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