Writing, living, and healing in the PNW
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I am launching a writing career. I have decided, at the craziest time of my life, with a five year old and an infant, to start my own business. “People who own their own businesses are married to their businesses.” My husband has said this to me a million times. We have discussed many ideas…
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*This article contains affiliate links. If you click on and buy either of the books I recommend, I will make a small commission, at no additional cost to you. So if you do click and buy, thank you for your support! My Thanksgiving Protest Why would I stage a Thanksgiving protest? Thanksgiving has always been…
I don’t sell any self care products. I am not a life coach, a self care coach, a fitness coach. No coaching over here. I am a writer, an educator, a mother, a wife, and yes, in all of those roles I am, proudly, a woman. I am and have always been a loud proponent…
NorCal Girl in SoCal When I was 16, my favorite aunt moved to Orange County, CA. I live in Northern California. Throughout my childhood we all, my whole raucous family of grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins, lived in Northern California. You see how northern has a capital N there? Northern California. Because Northern California is…
Ambivalent About Disneyland Let me begin by saying that I do not dislike Disneyland. I know that there has been controversy, especially in my (liberal feminist) circles, over princesses falling for the princes, the artificiality of happily ever, and the massive amounts of cultural appropriation and revisionist history, not to mention the blatant “fleecing” of…
This is the story of how I discovered the importance of truth and personal responsibility. It is not pretty or simple, but it is a crucial part of my journey, and it may become a part of yours as well. I hope so. Abortion I was 26 years old, and my boyfriend, the greatest love…
Our education system is broken. Yes, broken. It is probably broken beyond repair. At this point, I think the only way to fix our education system is to completely scrap it and start over. I am an educator, I have been in education for more than ten years, longer than I have been a mother….