Postpartum Depression

May 14-20 is Mental Health Awareness week PPD can be a sneaky one. You’ve gone from pregnant to not pregnant in the same moment

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Love Times Two

“Every pregnancy is different,” so I’ve heard, and have now experienced. When pregnant with my first baby, everything was new and exciting, curious and magical

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Making My Own Kimchi

photo credit: Tasha Burgoyne When God formed my limbs, shaped my eyes and decided to give me my mother’s dark, thick hair, through her: he

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Choosing Every Day

I speak as the single mother of two pre-teens (8 year-old-boy and 12-year-old girl). I have also been a first-time mother at 20; the mother

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The Welcome Box

Fifteen years ago, after spending time at a Guatemalan orphanage, my husband and I returned to the states and asked the very simple question:

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One Step Closer

I dragged them into marriage and motherhood unwillingly: the memories of my childhood. They tracked my steps and lurked in the shadows until it

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