Category Archives: activism

“Are you OK?” (No. Yes. Mostly?)

The past couple weeks have been a LOT. There’s been loss and grief and shock and perspective shifts. There’ve been so many adjustments, life almost feels fluid (which is pretty beautiful), and now it’s the end of May. The phrase “Are you okay?” always throws me off. I feel defensive and defective and completely unableContinue reading ““Are you OK?” (No. Yes. Mostly?)”

Ready or Not, my story

CW: pregnancy loss, abortion January 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th , 2021 were the worst days of my life so far. One of the things most friends don’t realize because we were all sheltering at home, is that I was pregnant in 2020. It was the one redeeming thing of an awful year. I coziedContinue reading “Ready or Not, my story”

Things I Do Not Understand

Things I Do Not Understand: War Edition I know that I do not know much about international relations, world politics, or war.  I am not a strategist or a scholar of authoritarian regimes.   I am broadly educated in world history up to about 1946 when we ran out of time to finish the syllabus so listened toContinue reading “Things I Do Not Understand”

Cruelty, Callousness and COVID

So, it happened. My family caught COVID last month. We had a sense it was heading our way when cases started appearing in our child’s kindergarten class. She had a bit of a sniffle so we tested her at home and it came up positive. That was a Sunday. We cancelled plans and pulled herContinue reading “Cruelty, Callousness and COVID”

Parenting in End Times

I’m learning that I’m rarely alone in my feelings or my thoughts, however isolating they may feel. So I’m wondering if there are others out there who struggle with raising a child amid the climate crisis. Within ten years the world may change so much we are in unending catastrophe. My girl will have justContinue reading “Parenting in End Times”

The Personal, Political, and Practicing ImPerfectionism

I, like many of us, have often let my perfectionism prevent me from STARTING. Things pile up around me because I can’t just do them, I have to do them RIGHT and I can’t do it right now, so it waits. It can fester. I, like many of us, am learning that anything worth doingContinue reading “The Personal, Political, and Practicing ImPerfectionism”

2021, the longest year for a Mom Demanding Action

For the last (four?) years I’ve been part of our local chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. For those who don’t know, it’s a grassroots organization of both mothers and others, gun-owners and non-gun owners, who refuse to accept 100 gun deaths a day. We are the gun safety version ofContinue reading “2021, the longest year for a Mom Demanding Action”