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In Darkness and In Cold

February 20, 2025February 20, 2025 / Cressey / Leave a comment

Heavy winds rage throughout the night. Power goes out. It is early Monday morning. At the start, I do what I can to capture the sun’s warmth, and trust it is only a matter of time before power returns. Hours pass in anticipation. As soon as the sun begins to set, the apartment gets colder … Continue reading In Darkness and In Cold

The Fire and Home, Take 2

January 11, 2025 / Cressey / 6 Comments

It was about 4:30 PM on Tuesday, January 7, 2025 when a news alert flashed across my screen in Pennsylvania announcing fires threatening the town where we once lived, in southern California. Our first home. To know anything about me is to know how much home means to me. It is a quest, within and … Continue reading The Fire and Home, Take 2

Re-Wild, Ohio Part 7

August 15, 2021October 25, 2021 / Cressey / 2 Comments

There is nothing of me that is alone and absolute except my mind,and we shall find that the mind has no existence by itself,it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.-DH Lawrence* Themes that keep arising: home, childhood, sacredness, intuition, rivers, ancestry. The place where I find myself today … Continue reading Re-Wild, Ohio Part 7

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Hope you will join me as I share my unexpected, mystical, utterly imperfect travels in parenting from a late-term miscarriage through to raising a young adult. To start, you may want to check out my first blog entry. To get deeper into the early years, see selected memoir chapters. Lighter bits include: crafts, games, poetry, and more on my story. My mission is offer our experience as a friend, resource, and fellow traveller on this intrepid and sometimes lonely—but always enriching—journey.

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