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I recently attended a book talk, "Finding the Magic in Middle School" by Chris Balme, who I consider the "Dr. Becky" (Becky Kennedy) of Good Inside (book and parenting platform - I read and joined), for middle school kids.  Side note: what an apt last name; he is certainly a balm for the childhood wounds that we all have and hold inside. The takeaways resonated with me (questions kids are asking themselves are: how am I, how do I connect, and what will I contribute), and really made me think about my own mi[...]

One of my best friends, Amy (who helped me create this site and inspired this piece), gave me the book, "Mom, I want to hear your story," to help inspire me with topics, themes, and ideas to share. There are A LOT of interesting questions, so I'm just going to go about it methodically; below are my current recollections of my "early years": I was born in Hayward, California, at Kaiser Hospital (same hospital chain your dad was born at, but in SF), and there are no records of what my first words were or when[...]