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I woke up this morning around 5 a.m. to the surprisingly loud sound of our dog’s tail thumping […]

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It turns out the cat's ninth birthday wasn't really about him. It was about me, my daughter, and the next stage of my life.

The post Nine Years and Three Cities Later first appeared on Michelle Junot.

Over the last nine months, I’ve been quietly growing a small business and a small baby. It’s been […]

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It’s been a strange time for a while now. The grandness of the life update I teased back […]

A year ago today, I was sitting beside my sister on a plane headed to New York City. […]

I have made two life decisions that are honestly so inconsequential that I judge myself for even needing to make this “announcement.” However, this is who I am, and I absolutely need to explain these “decisions” that I have wrestled with for the last year or so...

Is it just me or does 2020 kind of suck? (Sorry, Mom. We don’t say ‘suck.’) There’s new content and a new feel to the site coming in September (excuse the current chaos), but until then, I want to reflect back to the woes and angst of simpler times. I’ll be sharing the top 10 [...]

In many ways, it’s been a challenging season to be in love or to celebrate the anticipation of our marriage amid so much uncertainty, isolation, and raw pain experienced by our neighbors and world. After all, how does one lean into giddiness when others are wrestling joblessness and fear and literal life and death? And […]

I’m used to my life being crazy (relatively-speaking), and the world being scary (relatively-speaking), but we’ve all really outdone ourselves this year.

I sat down about an hour ago to commit all my feelings about September 11 to paper. I tried to explain the ways that this day has shaped my life and my anxieties and my fears and grief. I made a real attempt at organizing the ways my understanding of this day has changed and ...