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One day at a time, from the innermost to the outermost. I'm just a woman in my late 30's trying to figure things out.

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  • Fire, water, and grief: A story about the loss of my dad

    If you haven’t experienced grief, it can sometimes feel like an object on fire – too hot to touch, and too bright to look at. My mom’s death, which happened only 3 years ago, still feels molten, like glowing metal freshly pulled out of the forge. When it comes into my field of vision, I…

  • Wow – the video below was taken 2 weeks before Sunny was born, recorded April 30, 2021. When other people remember Sunny’s birth, they sometime say it was “traumatic”. I do not remember it this way. After my initial shock, I accepted the course of things, and thought that I felt only excitement and resolve.…