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I Was Wrong, It Doesn’t Get Easier

When our kids were toddlers mid-tantrum, parents would walk by and warn, “Just wait until they are teenagers! You’ll wish for these problems!” I was left assuming they’d turn into hormonal mutants who skipped school and snuck out to parties.…

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Changing How We Talk About Death

I remember sitting with my grandmother at the end of her life. She was in a hospice house and the nurses and volunteers brought her a menu of food selections. It was around 8am breakfast, but the nurse urged her…

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I’m Pretending it’s Fall

There’s a dead tree in our backyard. (Stick with me here).  The leaves are starting to die and fall from the branches. So while we’re in the middle of an intense heat wave, I stare at that tree and watch…

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Helping Kids (And Us) with Failure

They say pressure makes diamonds, but how much pressure is too much for our kids? I am constantly wavering about being proud of my kids for good grades and feeling overwhelmed with how much work they have to do. The…

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A Case of the Sunday Scaries

I remember when I was working my very first job, I would curl up on the bathroom floor in a pure panic the night before returning to work. I had a bad case of the “Sunday Scaries. Things have much…

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