I am exceptionally good at motion. Since I had Ethan, a decade ago, I feel like I have pretty much not slowed down. If I wasn’t having another baby, I was changing my career or buying a bigger house or leaving my husband or something. Year to year, I feel like my life at any [...]

Ian: Hey Hannah. How old are you going to be tomor– Hannah: (interrupting and dancing with joy) MY BIRTHDAY!!!!!! … TWO!!!!!!! This might be her best birthday ever.

Ah-ha-ha-ha, Feminism! I just lectured Ian at length about his privilege. And he said jokingly how he didn’t mean to take advantage of his privilege, but, like, there it is, you know? And I said understandingly how it is hard not to because every day we stew in little stories about how the people who [...]

Why is it so hard? Why do things have to get so vicious and personal before he will just talk to me? He tells me that he is suicidally depressed – but he can’t say so before first picking a giant fight with his sister, villainizing me for failing to see and prevent whatever must [...]