The photo that started this was nothing special by the standards of a camera roll. My five kids and my son's fiancée, lined up shoulder to shoulder in front of the big aquarium tank, watching the fish drift by. I was a few steps behind them, and I lifted my phone almost with…
Every season, I sit down and adjust our family rhythm. Not because the old one failed, but because we practice seasonal living, and a schedule that ignores the season is a schedule you end up fighting. The rhythm that carries us through a crisp October morning falls apart in a T…
I've been thinking about mothering as a form of resistance lately. It's easy to believe that resistance only happens in the streets, through marches and loud protests. But there is a quiet, radical defiance in the way we tend to our homes and build our communities. We ar…
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