I met Paul through the Southern California Mountaineers Assn. We became buddies over rock climbing trips to Joshua Tree, Lake Perris and Malibu’s Point Dume.
Published Writing
At Least Your Hair Looks Gorgeous
When I was eight, my sister told me to sit still at the kitchen table, she’d be right back with a special surprise. Her “special surprise” turned out to be a whiffle bat strike to the head. Similar to this whiffle bat encounter, my experience with motherhood has not turned out the way I expected. No one warned me about the “special surprises” that were to come.
The Movie “Three Identical Strangers” Changed How I Parent
The trauma and heartbreak of the triplet boys in the movie “Three Identical Strangers,” who were separated at six months and adopted into different families, made me reconsider how my husband and I are parenting our identical twin boys, Axel and Aidan. Read the essay in the Washington Post.
Telling My Twins Their Birth Story Changed Their Relationship
For the first five years of my identical twin boys’ lives, I couldn’t tell another adult their birth story without crying. How could I begin to share it with them?
Surviving the Twinning Reaction
The intense bonding connection between twins is called “the Twinning Reaction,” by psychologists and researchers. My neighbor the dog trainer says, “Don’t adopt two puppies from the same litter because they’ll never obey you.” Same concept.
Advice to Your Daughters: Don’t Waste Your Time on My Boys
When I was twelve, my middle school girlfriends and I called boys on the phone, hovered by the fence at Pop Warner football practice, and sat around at slumber parties speculating on which boys might ride past on their bikes or try to peek in the windows.
In the Deep End: Sprinting Through Water for Rehab and Cross-Training
Running in deep water reduces impact, adds resistance, increases flexibility and improves circulation. Article originally published in American Fitness Magazine.
The Barre Effect
Is it ballet? Dance? Pilates? Yoga? Turns out barre formats can be all of the above. Article published in Boulder Lifestyle.
The Pick-Up Artists
Originally featured in Errant Parent
When I discovered I was pregnant with identical twin boys, I had lovely fantasies about what that would be like and who they might become: matching denim overalls, sweet manners, a lack of interest in girls until puberty, and a curiosity about the earth that would lead them to become environmental engineers and save the planet, or at least the ocean.
The reality is something completely different. Instead, I find myself with five year old blond, blue-eyed tag-teaming hustlers, unafraid to approach any pretty female, regardless of her age.
Cross Country Skiing Without Snow?
From Boulder Lifestyle, October 2014.
“The greatest thing is that Nordic Walking covers all levels of ability and disability.”