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We Wish You a Merry Christmas
I just kind of sat there for a second, the air between The Question and I pregnant with a thousand thoughts and responses. It bore...
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Dec 21, 20245 min read
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A Letter to My Daughter
Ever since I found out I was pregnant the first time I have been writing letters. Journal entries really, to the girls. First Aurora,...
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Jul 14, 202410 min read
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Letting Go
I had an epiphany this week. It's one that I've skirted around and had glimpses of here and there, but one that's never fully stepped...
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Mar 3, 20243 min read
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At the Gym Today...
Dear Fitness Instructor: I know what you meant Eying me and my postpartum 20. “So…what is your fitness level?” To polite to say “do you...
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Jan 20, 20241 min read
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Greif
My 3 year old, like many a 3 year old before her, loves her "babies". It is not uncommon to find her snuggled in at night with 2 giant...
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Sep 20, 20236 min read
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An Open Letter to Governor Roy Cooper
Here's the dill pickles; I lost my shit. I mean like... 100% LOST IT It was a combination of sleep deprivation, postpartum hormones, the...
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Apr 22, 20234 min read
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Living in the Grey
Have you seen the, ‘I just want to be the person my dog thinks I am” memes? Come on, you have. They look like this; Or this; I have my...
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Feb 1, 20234 min read
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Let's EAT!
Trigger Warning: The following blog post contains language that those with disordered eating or other addiction issues might find...
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Jan 11, 20235 min read
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The Power of Repentance
Here’s the timeline: Thursday (Dec 8th) I got a call from daycare that Aurora had a runny nose. Took her to the doctor for a covid, rsv...
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Dec 28, 20227 min read
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It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
I don’t know what it was like for all of you that had young children in a pre-pandemic daycare system but speaking on behalf of those of...
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Dec 14, 20225 min read
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How Was Your Holiday? Ya'll ok?
I had a dream the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. I was hanging out in this run-down trailer smoking pot with two kids I knew in college,...
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Nov 30, 20225 min read
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Well THAT Was Embarrassing
I just shit myself in public. And by “just” I mean my hair is still wet from the shower, and I pressed start on the laundry about 2...
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Nov 12, 20225 min read
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One of These Things is Not Like the Other
We took our new baby out for a neighborhood stroll the other day. As we walked past our neighbors house, husband said, "hey, let's go...
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Nov 2, 20226 min read
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When Shit Goes Sideways
“That was fast! Came out in one push. Now, let’s look at that leg” Being just 5 days postpartum from an emergency c-section, the dr.’s...
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Oct 26, 20225 min read
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Sometimes it just is
Today I Made my daughter an omelet while preparing for a meeting with the county. He went to work, no child in tow, and did so with the...
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Jan 12, 20221 min read
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Mistakes were made...probably by me.
I want to talk to ya'll about a common turn of phrase that shows up in the lexicon a lot. The term is "I fucked up". And I hear it...
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Nov 23, 20214 min read
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What do you tell your kids?
2020 was bananas. Ba.Na.Nas. A global pandemic, economic crisis, political meltdown, coups, race riots in the streets, mayhem and death....
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Nov 14, 20212 min read
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Two Blondes Walk Into a Bar
I was 21 years old before I ever made a mistake. True story. I had started a new job waiting tables at a local fine dining establishment...
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Jun 9, 20216 min read
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You go to a Black Church? How Fun!
I joined New Mount Olive Missionary Baptist church when my good friend Datrian, whom I was in a singing group with at the time, invited...
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Feb 17, 20218 min read
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"With a name like Tiziana, I thought you'd be a black girl"
I get this alot, more so now that I live in the south, but yeah. I hear that about as frequently as,"is that your given name?" (no,...
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May 29, 20202 min read
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