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On Baltimore
On last week’s episode of the podcast This American Life they were talking about how studies show posting news articles or constantly making your opinion known on social media does nothing in the way...
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Coming to Terms with My Own Struggles So I Can Better Help My Kids Come to...
Last night we had to sit down with one of our sons and break the world down for him a bit. We’ve noticed this child has started to do things just to be cool. For now it’s nothing alarming, mostly just...
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The danger in assuming love will conquer all.
When Zach and I were getting married I wanted to engrave “Love conquers all” on our wedding bands. Like most unmarried 20-year-olds, I had no idea what it took to stay married but I had a whole lot of...
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Officially a Mom to a Teen
Trysten Zachary turned 13 almost a month ago ( I have this newly acquired belief that as my kids get older the days go quicker-no idea how it’s been a month already). Tman has this thing about smiling...
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How to Talk to Your Kids About Trump
A few months ago my sister-in-law and I started a podcast. (This is genuinely the real reason I haven’t blogged since it began.) I’ll go into that more in a future blog but it is because of that...
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Tariku is 11!
March 16, 2016. It was basically yesterday, right?😉 It was the day this guy turned 11 and wanted a bucket of chicken wings to celebrate. And donuts. Obviously. Full disclosure, Zach and I were actually...
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A Full Decade with Dailah Leagh
Yesterday our one and only daughter turned 10. Double digits she said when she woke up. Booya! Her one wish (other than a kitten and to pull up the carpet in her bedroom) was that her cousins,...
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How to Survive 14 Years of Marriage
14 years ago right now I was applying 52 coats of mascara, willing my lashes to grow for this one day. I slid on my $100 dress and my $15 shoes, placed the veil my family friend had made on my head and...
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An Open Letter to My Daughter On the Precipice of Puberty…
Yesterday we were at an orthopedic appointment for Binyam and while waiting for him to be done with his x-rays Dailah and I were talking. This is when she told me that for lunch she was able to have...
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On Identity
I’ve been mostly a healthy person in adulthood. As someone who works in the health and fitness industries as a personal trainer and group fitness instructor (and someone who oversees those...
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