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Editor’s note: This piece contains references to the sexual abuse of a child. See the kid in the picture? That is me, just a child who didn’t…

As I putter around my kitchen fixing toast and waking sleepy children for a routine Friday on earth, thousands of miles above my domesticity, two…

I’ve had a lot of people say to me, “I can’t believe you stayed.” Of course this was in reference to the fact that I…

I turned 35 years old on my last birthday, and what I have figured out over the last few months is that this age is STRANGE. It’s the age in which…

When the Packers took on the Cowboys in Dallas this weekend, the game was what you might expect. Two people in the crowd, seen laughing together as…

I’ve always heard about the loneliness that comes while raising teens. Most days, I don’t understand it. I don’t understand it because my life…

It was 30 minutes before the wedding ceremony and I could hear the band playing softly in the background. You came in the bridal suite and took my…

For years, I have seen a quote floating around social media. Shared over and over and over again. A post I have a really difficult time “liking”…

Dear younger me, Good news is you’re still going to be kicking it at 49, which should shock you considering you think people my age fall into…

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself,…

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