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The Boundary
I do not know you. But we sit next to each other on an airplane. I comment on your cute kitten heeled pumps and you compliment my bag. We debate whether a series of back to back business meetings warrants a $6 glass of crappy red wine and the vote is unanimously ‘yes’. As you [...]
New Incarnations
It’s difficult to write this blog post, both because I’m overwhelmed with anticipation and excitement for what’s in store for get born as an entity, and because it’s a culmination of a tremendously complicated inner process for me. I’ll back up. Raised as a missionary kid in Ecuador, South America, I wholeheartedly embraced the evangelical [...]
News of and from get born
It is with unimaginable grief that I write this letter. I cannot continue the endeavour that has become get born any longer, and because the magazine, in spite of great fan adoration and excellent content, has failed to support a staff, there is no one else able to carry it either. I started this journey [...]
Kid’s Meals
We’ve all done it. Well, most of us have. The McDonald’s appeal is for those of us who need a reprieve from life with small children. And I don’t regret a single meal that I bought my kids there, because it bought me some precious sanity when I desperately needed it. That said, I do [...]
Clutter
I know this: even though the very temporary tidiness of my physical space has cleared up enough mental space for me to write, in spite of the copious noise pollution that defines my life, it’s fleeting. Tomorrow, the reindeer games of my preschooler, the pack-rat penchant of my 11-year-old, the flighty, devil-may-care strewing of all things of my 9-year-old, will all conspire to turn our home into the barely managed chaos that has defined it from the beginning.
Resolute
Heather talks crazy about New Year’s Resolutions
