Recently, I spent a week and a half serving on a jury for a murder trial. I was excited to be selected to serve because I’ve wanted to learn more about how our justice system actually functions and I’m all about doing my civic duty. Over the course of the trial, we heard from witnesses,Read More
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Approaching an Anniversary
Trigger Warning: This post gets pretty dark related to my past experience with the Camp Fire and fears/trauma associated with that. In my introductory post, I mentioned that my family and I lost our home to the Camp Fire last November. As the anniversary of this trauma approaches, I’m finding myself falling deeper into theRead More
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Meet The Bean
I mentioned in my introductory post that I have a son. We call him The Bean. As of now, he is just shy of 18 months old. That means he’s just hit the point where he has enough of a brain to do some really awesome things, but not enough to keep from killing himselfRead More
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An Introduction
On November 7, 2018, my 7 month old son first started crawling with intention. For the first time ever, he was able to cross a room of his own volition. On November 8, 2018, the town we lived in was enveloped in the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California history. Before the fire, IRead More