What A Dad Conference Taught Me About Joy & Anxiety

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So I did this thing last weekend where I went to a blog conference all about dads. It’s called Dad 2.0, and I’ve been fortunate enough to make it 2 years now, each year of it’s existence. I don’t know why I never go into it with the expectations I do for other conferences that [...]

In Austin? You’re Invited to the Pregnancy & Postpartum Health Alliance of Texas Wine Social

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It’s been almost exactly a year since I broke down and got help for what turned out to be postpartum anxiety. This time last year, I was in a lonely, scary, dark place. Like a hole I couldn’t find a way out of. I thought I’d be stuck there forever. It really didn’t seem like [...]

Because She Helped Me See This Was Something I Could Beat #PostpartumAnxiety

I’m not a very religious person, but I believe in God, and I believe in God putting people in my life at times I need them most. Katherine Stone came into my life in the summer of 2011, and I’m forever grateful. We briefly got to meet each other at Blogher ’11, and I was [...]

The Anxious Inconvenience

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Next year I won’t have him all to myself, except on the weekends and the holidays on a public school calendar. It’s a fact that use to, frankly, elate me. FREE CHILDCARE ALL WEEK! Until it got closer to reality. This year, I intended to put him in pre-k 4 days a week, Monday through [...]