I am imperfect…
a work in progress…
a fresh start every day.
I am already full of life,
and seeking definition and clarity…
A Fairy Tale…
I was recently invited to try writing a fairy tale. Here were the instructions: Start with “once upon a time,” imagine yourself as the main character, and just let it flow out. Here is what I came up with…
Yes, and…
I am here because… I want to love me. I want to love life… even the parts I don’t want. I want to accept that I will never be done trying to love all the parts. This is not a fight to the death… and it also is. And I see I am not alone,…
New scientific study on spanking… are we asking the right questions?
A few years ago I would have immediately lept onto my high horse after reading this article about the new ground-breaking scientific study on spanking, which states that five decades of research on children that were spanked shows spanking in fact doesn’t improve behavior or have positive long-term impact on a child’s life. A…
We have choices!
I had dinner with a friend the other night in this delectable Argentinian restaurant in downtown Denver and she tells me she is writing a book about YOU. She explains that it must be about YOU, because that word needs to be redefined since most people don’t understand it. As I sit listening to her…
Who is attached to whom?
I always imagined that staying at home with my sweet baby boy would be a dream come true. However, as I look back and think about it, I can see that I was at a complete loss much of the time. I was grasping at straws, trying to control everything by making spreadsheets of breastfeeding…
