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The Leaving Years
By the time you read this, I might be in a fetal position.
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Jenna Park
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Reentry. Home is not a place.
A summer of goodbyes and a summer of hope.
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A reminder that there was life before kids
An empty nest preview. It's gonna be okay.
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The walls of silence
How a car accident, an email, and time chipped away at the walls between us. An essay on being mothered and being a mother.
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Outgrowing friendships
Friendships post-Instagram, post-empty nest, and the liminal time that is summer.
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Jenna Park
30
In the bloom of spring, life doesn't stay stuck forever
Life breathes back in—and with it changes, decisions, and managing multiple streams of income.
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Raising biracial kids as a 1.5 generation American
The liminal state of being an immigrant
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Cherry blossoms in the snow, a January restart, and bed parties
The weather's just as confused as I am at the start of the year.
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Jenna Park
49
The extraordinary in the ordinary
In another big year of change, I learn how to sit in cafes and sketch.
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Jenna Park
31
The end of summer, and the first of many lasts
The importance of building memory banks
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9
Calgon, take me awayyyy! When motherhood puts you over the edge.
Some commercials from childhood really stick with us.
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Jenna Park
17
Midsummer's melancholy
Growing pains of empty nesting; the unfolding process of letting go
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