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Esperance (es-per-uhns): the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best

Every-other-month essays about life, parenting, and the human experience, with book recommendations and reactions to current events (personal and universal). I can’t promise brilliance, but I do promise to be thoughtful, vulnerable, raw, and authentic.

It has to start somewhere
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It has to start somewhere

The news coming out of Minneapolis has weighed heavily on me, particularly the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, both of them thirty-seven years old. I wanted to go to a protest after Renee Good’s death, because that was absolutely the straw that broke the camel’s back for me, but I was scared. I’m ashamed of it, but I was. 

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