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A 1970s childhood

My latest post is up over at A Deeper Story. It’s about how childhood oblivion is erased by our choices. A blank slate becomes autobiography. It’s also a bit about growing up in a world without seat belts, with cigarettes. It’s called The Smoking Baby. Who was the Smoking Baby? Me.

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A beautiful confidence

Today, I’m over at A Deeper Story musing on beauty, ritual, and how to avoid eating a bowling ball’s weight in makeup over your lifetime: Don’t wear makeup.

What happened when my admittedly shallow, embarrassing assumptions were wiped away like lipstick off a front tooth?

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Exhausted in the Right Arms

Ollie has fully recovered from a startling, sudden, severe case of croup. It was his first. I’ve dealt with croup many times, but this was a whole new level of croup. Like a Croup Vortex. I took him to the doctor after a very long night and it was rough. I had never seen him […]