Just Us: Rhythms of Family
With Ella two months deep into school, weekends have become holy time. I revere them accordingly and work to protect the time within them. Time with…
Dear World: Thoughts on Starting School
I got the call last week: Hi Rachel. Your daughter’s school enrolment pack is here if you could kindly pick it up from our office and…
Stand Up, Little Girl.
There’s a folder I’ve started on my computer called “Ella”, and in it are things I come across and file away for the years ahead of…
Still Worth Celebrating
I saw a HONY post a couple of days ago about a man in crack addiction recovery, attributing his success in staying clean to his childhood…
Mean Girls
“I can’t deal with this for the next fifteen years”, my friend says to me. “This mean girl stuff is only going to get worse the…
The Holy Grail of After School
It’s funny, the things you remember from childhood. The scent of those vomit-smelling seedpods on my walk home from school. Scrunchy socks in year three. Screaming…
With Them
There are five stuffed pink garbage bags at our front door, waiting for me to take them to Lifeline. Another three have been thrown in the…
