Category: Personal

  • Dear IB, Today especially — my first Mother’s Day — I have been thinking about my Ama. All the little memories that I have of her. All the things that my mother has told me. The small details that paint a larger picture. The stories that become legend. You will hear about my tiny hands reaching…

  • Six months, a lifetime

    My little IB is 6 months old today. I don’t know where the time went. Or maybe I do. It’s weird how time works now, at least in regards to my daughter. She is always and everything. She is always going to be the little wiggleworm I carried inside me for nine months. She is always going…

  • Little steps

    For the past two nights, my little girl has slept the whole night in her crib in her nursery by herself. It wasn’t exactly planned, but we knew it was on the horizon. She is getting too long for the bassinet we keep by our bed, plus she has become a pretty good sleeper, and I was…

  • Resolve

    On January 1, 2016, I was in the midst of trying to get pregnant. I wouldn’t have called it a new year’s resolution, haha, but it was definitely a priority. Now I have an amazing little girl, a living symbol of my love and luck, dozing beside me as I write this. When she was…

  • Adapting

    The past couple months have been a whirlwind, both personally and politically. For better or worse, the personal has kept me from dwelling too much on the political. In typical newborn fashion, my little IB demands nearly all of my time, energy, and attention. It’s a big change, this shift from Person to Also Parent. And just when…