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Losing Friends as a New Parent – Is It Really Inevitable?
Becoming a parent is a big life transition, one I’d been dreading for quite a while because of what I’ve heard from other people. You’ll never see your friends again. People drop off the map. I did have a friend (let’s call her Cang) who dropped her end of the rope after becoming a parent. Continue reading
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Reflections Before Giving Birth to My First Child
My husband and I have been sick this week. First he was sick, and then two days later, I woke up with a swollen, irritated throat that evolved into a runny nose and then ongoing congestion and a lingering wet cough. The worst of it is over as of today. I’m glad I won’t have Continue reading
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Not a Cat
The cat clawed at the door. But there was no door, and the cat was not a cat, only a memory of a sweet cat that once was. Continue reading
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We Would Be Sand Dollar Rich: a memoir
Work was far from my thoughts as I wandered along the sand on a Wednesday morning, a week after my sister had killed herself. Waves curled and flattened against the shore as I ambled forth, my eyes cast downward in search of calcium-rich remains of mollusks. This morning, the beach—not the city named after the Continue reading
Eden Onpeng 