Week in Review – November 5, 2020

How I’m Feeling: This week has been a weird one for sure. The election, and the combativeness and hostility that has come along with it, have really gotten me riled up. If I’m being totally honest, I have some controlling tendencies. I sometimes have a hard time letting go of…

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The Great Escape: The Best Adult, YA and Children’s Fantasy Books

It’s shaping up to be a pretty weird week in America. With a hotly contested election on the horizon, the threat of protests from both sides of the aisle, and an ongoing pandemic, we could all use a break, and a little lightness in our lives. Below, I have compiled…

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Cultivating Gratitude in Everyday Parenthood.

Last Week, Laura Tremaine hosted an Instagram challenge called #onedayhh (i.e. One Day, Hour by Hour). I was intrigued, so I participated, and it turned out to leave much more of a lasting impact on me than I ever imagined that it would. Laura Tremaine is a blogger, and the…

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Week in Review – October 25, 2019

What I’m Reading: American Royals and Majesty – Katharine McGee I read the first book in this series, American Royals, several months ago, and finally got around to picking up the sequel, Majesty. Both books tell the story of the world that would have been, had America been founded as…

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Self-love in my third, first trimester

When I was pregnant with my son, I remember coming across an instagram post, written by a woman who had been discriminated against by her employer because she was pregnant. In the picture, she was holding a letter board that read, “pregnancy is not a disability.” She went on to…

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