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Mother brushing sand off her toddler's feet on a sunlit beach during a motherhood session on Whidbey Island.

The Lasts We Never Notice: A Quiet Meditation on the Passing of Childhood

We are taught to watch for the firsts. We mark them in baby books, capture them on our phones, and announce them to the grandparents, the first smile, the first step, the first word, the first day of school. And we’re right to celebrate them because they are genuinely worth celebrating. The firsts arrive with […]

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Pregnant mother sitting and snuggling with her two daughters on a beach during a motherhood session on Whidbey Island near Seattle.

The Invisible Mother: On Being in the Picture Before This Season Ends

There is a particular ache that comes over many mothers when they go looking for themselves and cannot be found. You scroll back through the months and the years of photographs, thousands of them, a whole archive of your children growing up, and you notice with a quiet sinking feeling that you are barely in

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