by Stephanie | Dec 19, 2012 | Uncategorized
Along with the rest of the country, my emotions over the past five days have been all over the map. And like many others, I have been fluctuating between an urge to marinate in media coverage and the desire to put my fingers in my ears and tune it out. To tune it out...
by Stephanie | Dec 14, 2012 | Uncategorized
My six year old was supposed to take the bus home today, but I couldn’t bear it and showed up at school, alongside the bewildered throngs of numb looking parents.People I have never met before smiled at me, if you can call an expression full of such sadness and...
by Stephanie | Oct 15, 2012 | Uncategorized
**I wrote this post two years ago after the discovery of the body of Jessica Ridgeway, a local 10-year-old girl who was abducted by a teenage neighbor on her way to school and murdered. I am not sharing details of the case—this is simply my reflection of that terrible...
