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Running Head First Into Divorce Guilt

Apparently, parenting kids through divorce is so rife with missteps and trauma, the process has acquired its very own brand of guilt: divorce guilt. And I just ran head first into it. Divorce guilt had been sneaking up on me for months without my realizing it. Since my husband and I told our three teenaged kids last December about the impending split, I have been laser focused on their emotional well-being. (And on safeguarding my …

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10 Years After September 11th

The phone rang a little before six am. It was the first full week of school, and I hadnt gotten used to waking up early again yet, so I was still in bed, enjoying the last few minutes of sleep before my alarm went off. My husband I had been trying to get pregnant for the first time, and that morning was the first day that I would be able to take an early pregnancy test. I had the test and the directions all laid out on the bathroom counter, and Id gone to bed feeling excited and anxious.