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I'm Done With Heels
Part rant, part resignation and a whole bunch of links I've been wanting to share for weeks!
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Flash Memoir: A Roof Before the Rain
How babies are like the weather
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February 2024

January 2024

Flash Memoir: Foundations
build it first and build it strong and then have the courage to mess it all up
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Run Club
At 5:30 on a Tuesday morning, cold and dark, and I was in a high school parking lot, nervously stepping from foot to foot. A few weeks before, I reached…
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December 2023

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
I wasn’t even going to put up a tree until Nick pointed out I was being a bit of a Grinch. The space feels a little more festive, but this is still a…
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Favorite Books of 2023
a curation
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November 2023

With Gratitude
A man I know likes to say, “Happy people are grateful people, and those that aren’t… aren’t.” In the years since I got sober, I’ve picked up a few…
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Flash Memoir: The Rental
The Waiting Place. We’ve been in a rental for almost two months now. The boxes are gone, and everything that has a place is in its place, but I’m not…
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Flash Memoir: Demo Day!
Last week was Demo Day, I held Tatum in the backyard while Nick and I watched an excavator move piles of splintered wood into a dumpster. “What did we…
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October 2023

Diagraming Our Family
"If this moment were a sentence, I would be the..."
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Flash Memoir: "I Was Here"
A painting party... Way back when we first submitted our plans to the County of Santa Barbara, I got the idea to have a painting party, where we invite…
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