Kristi Pahr

2016 sucked. If we can’t agree on anything else, I think we can all agree on at least that much.

When I got pregnant for the third time, I was determined to have an unmedicated VBAC. I had big plans. This VBAC was going to be my birth experience salvation. It was going to be empowering and amazing and heal all my hangups. I was going to be a mama goddess and everything was going to be perfect. I was wrong.

I’ve been pregnant three times, and I have two beautiful, amazing, awe-inspiri

As a mother of boys, I find this trend disturbing. Yes, we need to build up our girls. We need to empower them and teach them that they are capable and viable and powerful — that they are smart and that they matter. But we cannot devalue our boys in the process.

I’m lazy as hell, you guys. I know it’s true and I’m not particularly ashamed.

Soundgarden was part of something bigger, something that changed everything.

“Is she Black or white?” I asked another mom who was describing a little girl in her son’s class that she thought my family might know.