There are a lot of overlapping resources in the links below, but most include at least something unique from the others and so I am posting them all here. Choose a couple to check out if you can’t read them all right now. If you can, please donate to any of the organizations listed in…
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While the enormity of what we all are collectively dealing with right now is still sinking in, I am trying to find bright spots through the challenges. This helped me a lot to reframe some of my fears and anxieties and maybe it will help you, too. While we are all understandably feeling fear and…
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Back in 1914 when he was around 26 and a graduate student at Harvard, T.S. Eliot professed his love to his friend, Emily Hale, a speech and drama teacher at various schools. Hale did not appear to reciprocate his feelings at the time and Eliot moved to England where he quickly met and married another…
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An article in The Atlantic this week explores what it calls “a uniquely modern phenomenon”: how the boundary between being treated like part of your significant other’s family and being treated like an outsider has been made unclear in recent generations since sex, cohabitation, and parenting outside of marriage has become much more widely accepted…
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The writer/ inspirational guru, Anne Lamott (author of cult favorites like Bird by Bird, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith, and Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son’s First Year [which should maybe be required reading for expectant parents], as well as lengthy Facebook posts in which she shares the secret of life) got married…
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