Le Tribù Che Scelgo
Le Tribù Che Scelgo The Tribe I Choose I’m an only child so the idea of a sisterhood, a tribe, was a new notion to me. A few years ago when “tribe” popped up everywhere it was a strange feeling for me....
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My husband is an immigrant. A first-born Australian to a British father and Filipino mother, he’s darker-skinned than all of his friends, but lighter than half of his family. He was the outcast of his...
View ArticleIts Time To Get Off This Ride
My ex-husband and I never should have gotten married. There. I said it. I think we both knew that, too, which, in a way, makes it even harder to admit. We fought all the time, he’d kick me out of our...
View ArticleLast Time I Checked It Was 2019?
Last week, rapper T.I. made international news when he appeared on the Ladies Like Us podcast and bragged about dragging his daughter, Deyjah, to the gynecologist every year for a hymen check. Yes,...
View ArticleA Hard Truth To Swallow: Fed Is NOT Best!
I have a somewhat unique experience of having my children very far apart. My son was born in 2005 and my daughter in 2017. My children were born in two completely different world views on nursing, to...
View ArticleI Had Postpartum Depression, and I Hid It
On a Saturday morning at 12:37 my water broke. I woke up thinking I was having the worst pregnancy night sweats of all time. I went to the bathroom, realized I was in labor, psyched myself up for a few...
View ArticleMelt My Heart to Stone
When my husband and I decided to have another child, I wanted to be sure my prenatal and birthing experience was going to be exactly what I wanted, on my terms. This would be the last baby, I wasn’t...
View ArticleIts All in the Game of Love
Let’s take a fun little glimpse into my musical history for this Month of Love. I’m going to let iTunes randomly select songs from my entire library and skip until I get to a sappy love song. The...
View ArticleGrow Through What You Go Through
Imposter Syndrome [ im-pos-ter sin-drohm ] noun the persistent inability to believe that one’s success is deserved or has been legitimately achieved as a result of one’s own efforts or skills. I’ve...
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