#motherhoodthroughinstagram
My baby was 18 months old when I joined Instagram. I figured the platform would be a way to connect with other mothers and…
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Additions and Subtractions
I’ve tried a lot of different subtractions over the years: selling my plasma, going without health insurance, living in a house in the woods with no indoor plumbing…
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On Change
A few months ago I started swimming in the morning. I used to think I hated swimming in the morning. I thought: I’m not a morning person.
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A Digital Notebook on Invisible Borders
Why did I write it down? In order to remember, of course, but exactly what was it I wanted to remember? How much of…
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On Being Unalone
For twenty-five days I live in a northern house. I have the place to myself. I am out in a nowhere. The house is thirty kilometers from the nearest town…
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V-Formation: Two Years of Vela
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. – Annie Dillard It is September again, and those of us…
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A Life’s Work
By the time my father was in his late fifties, he’d calculated the number of days of work he had left until he could retire; it was somewhere over eight hundred.
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