Families

Logically speaking, I fully understood and appreciated the necessity for the shift, but my heart was far less forgiving.

What is it like being boob shamed and tattoo shamed 20 years after the fact?

Whoever is responsible for coining the term “terrible twos” and leaving the entirety of the threes out of the equation is sitting at the very top of my sh*t list. Because a little warning would’ve been nice.

I'm pregnant with twins. To help make me more prepared, I turned to Google, as you do. It’s been… educational.

When I told him that I caught a Mantine, he wrote back, Yeah, I think I caught four or five of them today. I didn’t mind—for the first time in my life, my dad and I were talking without a mediator. He called around Thanksgiving to tell me that a new Pokémon had been added. He checked in again during a special water event in the game and said, Are you catching the fire out of these water Pokémon?

If I had hated my dad, all of this would have been so much easier. But I didn’t.

My last name links me to my father. Every time I see it, every time I write it down, I think of him. It helps me keep him alive in my soul, and it makes me feel like I’m carrying a part of him with me wherever I go.

Being re-circumcised is not the same thing as the quick in-office procedure that happens to a newborn. Circumcision a surgery now.