Today’s post is a bit different than usual, but I hope it will help someone in a similar situation.
Disclaimer: this is NOT medical advice and you should always consult a doctor (1) before drastically altering your personal care routines and (2) if you think that you have an allergy or sensitivity.
At the end of last summer, I suddenly developed what I thought was adult acne, albeit not quite the same as my occasional hormonal acne. It made sense: the weather was changing from hot and humid to cool and drier; I was cutting some nursing sessions for my newly 1-year-old; we had recently traveled to Colorado, which always seems to throw off my skin.… Read More »
I wasn’t quite sure how to title this post… “Happy New Year!” sounds a bit out-of-touch, given current events. I live in a first-ring suburb of Minneapolis, so there’s a lot of conflict happening at my doorstep. This isn’t a political blog, but it’s impossible to ignore politics when it reaches into daily life.
The heavens opened up over the Twin Cities yesterday. It rained all afternoon and started up again overnight. I woke up at 5am to rain pounding on the roof, thunder crashing overhead, and… the sound of my baby crying because he had woken up, too. Sigh. 
Blergh. Every time I sit down to write over the past few weeks, I get partway through the post, run out of steam, and save the draft for another time. It’s not that I’m picking topics I don’t want to write about–they’re just not on the top of my mind right now. And with everything else happening at the moment, I seem only capable of writing about what I’m currently mulling over.