I’m often the only dad in the room—at school pickup, at ballet and gymnastics classes, at toddler time and library story time. So every time I walk into these events, with my daughter holding my hand, there’s a thought, not incredibly loud or insistent, but one I am certainly aware of nonetheless: “This is a […]
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A couple of weeks ago, I clocked out of work at the end of the day, drove across town and walked into the preschool my daughter attends. Like any other day I smiled across the room at her, confessed how much I missed her in the 7 hours we were apart and waved to her
Before pushing the passing winter too far into the recesses of my memory, I choose to pause and take stock of how much living and growing can happen in a single season. This weekend marked the end of the season of skiing at the Middlebury Snowbowl, which has been our family’s playground and sanity salve
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Spring in Vermont means mud, fresh air… and unfortunately, allergies and ticks are back too. Runny noses and itchy eyes can feel just as annoying as a cold — and they tend to linger longer. Ticks are small and sneaky, so daily checks after time outside are now part of the routine. Allergy Basics Allergies
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“What are those signs with the crowns, Mama?” my five-year-old daughter asked as we drove to school the other day. I took a deep breath and paused the “K-Pop Demon Hunters” soundtrack we’ve had on repeat for the last six months (honestly, every song’s a bop). Then I answered as best I could. I gave
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Like many family households, we have a dog. A gloriously gigantic, white fluffy dog named Hess. Hess is a type of dog called a Great Pyrenees — which means she’s technically classified as a working breed. She excels at guarding our livestock and small farm, she likes having something to do. She also has the
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I saw a post on Facebook recently about a new club that caters to parents in need of social interactions, no matter the weather, with their little ones. A local woman named Kendall is trying to create a strong outdoor community that gets kids outside as easily as possible. “My hope is that families join
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There are a lot of things that take up our mental energy — be it the more mundane and necessary (like grocery shopping, preparing and cooking meals, car maintenance, cleaning, work) to the more unfortunate (national politics, social media, et al.). Every part of this takes some amount of our energy, and we don’t always
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Somehow it happened: our baby turned one. Which is also to say that my husband and I survived our first year of parenting. And what a year it was. So much has happened since February 2025, when our daughter’s challenging birth landed us in the Dartmouth-Hitchcock NICU. The three of us weren’t together in those
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