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Day Zero

by | Sep 2, 2015

Day Zero I've been thinking about loss lately, and how it drops a person into a stress so heavy it's often easier to just go back to whatever you were doing before and pretend the loss isn't sitting there. I've been thinking about it specifically in relation to job...

Strategies for Dealing with Transition Days

by | Aug 27, 2015

Strategies for Dealing with Transition Days Are you in the middle of a transition day? There are two types of transition days: the ones where the kids leave to go stay with their other parent, and the ones where they come back to you. Let's deal with the leaving days...

Transition Days

by | Aug 18, 2015

Transition Days I often wonder if there are other parents out there like me. I start wondering about five minutes after dropping my kids off at school. Day one of five days they're with their dad, on our 2255 parenting schedule. Are there other parents out there who...

Advocate, Mom, Writer

My days these days are mostly advocacy, with my kids always first, and hiking, biking, and cold plunging worked in whenever I can. Winter cold plunges aren’t for everyone, but there’s a strange kind of beauty and calm in it that I’ve come to need.

Separation was a journey. It took time, and it taught me most of what I know now.