Another loss in the family today. In the span of a mere 24 days, my husband Alex lost first his uncle, then his aunt, on his mother’s side, to COVID19. His two cousins, their children, now orphaned to misfortune, pain, overwhelming grief, and loss. I personally never had the privilege nor honor of meeting them, […]

October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month. One in 4 Women will lose a baby during pregnancy, delivery, or infancy. One in 160 pregnancies will end in stillbirth. Pregnancy and infant loss has long been stigmatized and shrouded in shame. Yet, thousands of mothers and parents suffer silently, feeling forsaken and alone in their […]

Important conversations are happening, and need to continue happening. Some, for the first time are waking up from a deep sleep to the reality of systematic racial division and oppression against the Black Community. I know that I have. I’ve taken a breath. I realize that I am lucky to still be breathing, because so […]

I wasn’t planning on posting about this, but the issue is too important and close to my heart to stay silent. Today is World Day Against Human Trafficking. Mothers, Fathers, Parents, Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles, Sisters, Brothers, Friends, I implore you to turn your eyes to this issue. Trafficking is the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring of […]

Hey mamas, I wanted to share with you this amazing free resource so generously created and shared by Lucy Song, fellow mama and incredibly talented designer over at Wander and Wonder Studio (@wanderandwonder.studio). Raising Little Allies – To – Be by Wander and Wonder Studio It is meant to be: “an incomplete guide for parents […]

I believe I only began to understand the idea of sacrifice when I became a mother.  From the day that our flesh was combined, and I became their first home.  My heart grew larger, and beat faster to fill their veins.  Perhaps I do not understand and may never understand firsthand the terror of racist […]

The world as we know it, is on fire. And at its epicenter, are black bodies. Black mothers, black children, black fathers, black families, black futures, black lives. For far too long, black lives and lives of people of color have been sacrificed, buried in forgotten graves of oppression, violence, and trauma shoveled over them […]