Are you a Grown Up? And How to Be Sure (According to a Three-Year-Old)
In case you aren’t one of the 30 strangers my daughter has alerted, she got a pedal bike. And to all boys over the age of eight (who I’m...
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- Feb 16
- 5 min
Motherhood is but a Stage. And I, the Villain.
This morning, during imaginative play, I was cast as the evil king from my daughter’s favorite children’s book, Zog and the Flying...
- Feb 6
- 6 min
Former Pro Big Mountain Free Skier and ER Doctor Claudia Bouvier brings Wilderness First Aid to Peru
It’s a little-known fact that once you’ve landed a 720 off a snowy cliff as a professional big mountain free skier – emergency medicine,...
- Jan 18
- 5 min
Are There Cars in Heaven?
Lately it seems my daughter is the host of her own drive-time talk show whose aim is to make her on-air guest cry. Our conversations...
- Jan 14
- 6 min
The Worst Advice on Social Media, and I Took It.
The first month of 2023 has passed, and maybe it’s because we’re deep into winter (with already far more snow than we amassed all year...
- Jan 14
- 3 min
The Memories Aren't Washable but the Sweater is Ruined
Parenting at 7,000 feet has its challenges. We shovel, a lot, and I don’t just mean snow. We grocery shop, in the snow, we pick our kids...
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