Experts in child development know that messy play is important for small children but also it’s, well, messy. Freedom to explore and experiment with materials and objects that make a mess supports a growing child’s gross and fine motor skills and that freedom is bought with the currency of clean…

I do what I do for motherkind. I am not actually clear on what I mean by that or if I believe myself. There has been in me a kind of mother for as long as I can remember, being born to a woman who was in some way also…

I am really uncomfortable writing this. I am uncomfortable doing most things. I am uncomfortable being a human because to be a human is to experience things I don’t have any control over and I don’t want to experience things I don’t have control over. Frankly it sucks. And then…

Everything I write, I write for me first. Me first always. Because I am creator and creation and there are things that I need that I can only get from myself. Weird, right? But it’s true. And so it’s time to drop the writing for anyone other than myself. The…

Kids, listen I have something I want to get off my chest. I know you are not going to listen. Or you will listen long enough to let the words wash through your head, in one ear and then out the other, which is not my favorite way of interacting…

I feel a swell of hope this morning after the text from your dad saying you messaged him that you were in the hospital for 3 days. Is this true? There has been many messages from you that have turned out to be false. I don’t hold my breath. But…

This week I posted a tiktok about a relationship I had when I was 19. It was the 90’s. I was hyper independent and didn’t trust anyone. But I wanted deeply to love and then I met Rob. And the video I posted was about the romance we had and…