Hard Joy is about disability, parenting, grief, and care, and the joy that can live alongside what's hard.
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The Baby Gate Won
For those of you reading along, my last piece was about sexual violence, so I figure I owe you some levity. Consider this to be the palate cleanser.
You may have heard nursing moms complain about bleeding nipples. You may have heard blind...
When You Can’t Watch Your Drink
I want to start by acknowledging that I’m a few weeks late to this beat. The broader discourse was happening, I wrote this piece, and then I hesitated on the final polishing for, oh, about two weeks. Why, you might wonder? Well, my househol...
Words Matter
Take a moment to think about how you typically encounter the word blind. For me, most recently, it has been my daughter’s frequent request to listen to “Three Blind Mice,” or, as she calls it, “Three Bind Rice,” a song I abhor for reasons I...
When Our Bodies Trick Us
A dear friend asked me recently to try to explain the anxiety someone with a visual impairment might feel when entering a space that challenges their vision. She was asking for her teenage son, who has compromised vision and shows visible s...
Everyone Deserves a Casserole
Photograph of a casserole by sheri silver on Unsplash
A few weeks ago the journalist Jessica Slice wrote an article for New York Magazine detailing her ordeal in trying to get an accurate diagnosis and treatment for her daughter, who was e...
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clinical psychologist and researcher, millennial mom, and disability advocate writing about disability, care, parenting, mental health, and the science and messy realities of being human
Researcher, clinical psychologist, millennial parent, movie enthusiast. Track changes are my love language. Interested in how we talk about mental health, science, parenting, and everything in between.
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