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Hard Joy emerges from the often disorienting spaces of life - grief, disability, parenting, and love. It grows from the paradoxical strength that can follow devastation. What do we do with these parts of life that unmoor, remake, and define us?

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Fast and Slow

One of my daughter’s favorite books, at least sometimes, is a simple board book called Hello Hello Opposites. It moves through pairs: big and small, loud and quiet, wet and dry.

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