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Our Forgotten Superpower
Using our imagination can literally save lives.
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Pacifica Goddard
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Homecoming
Am I afraid of the homesickness you feel when you go to the place you are from, but it no longer feels like home? Am I afraid of removing the miles…
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A Phantom Line
Zephyr had a central from four weeks to seven months of age. It gave us constant direct access to his bloodstream, for better and for worse. Once it was…
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Who Are We When We Are "Not Ourselves?"
Do things like drugs and alcohol change us, make us "not ourselves?” What about hunger or fatigue? Where do we draw the line between what defines us and…
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Chutes and Ladders
Hope about the future without some kind of acceptance of the present is not freedom. Hope can only be liberating if it is not tied too tightly to…
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Normal Enough
First-time parents often spend a great deal of time comparing their baby’s learning and development to other babies, trying to determine whether or not…
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Same Words, Different Language
On top of everything else that cancer patients and their family members have to deal with, the burden is usually on us to learn to speak different…
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Pacifica Goddard
Monsters
It’s so hard to choose words as a parent. You think that when the moment comes to explain something difficult, you will know what to say, but it always…
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I Can't Begin to Imagine...
Sharing my thoughts and experiences while parenting a child with treatable cancer, so it is more imaginable for everyone
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