The kids are settled into school, the leaves are changing, and we’ve started adding layers most days when we head out for the day. It’s already nearing the end of September and we’re getting ready for the inevitable. Flu season. We can count on it. Every year it’ll arrive, and every year it’ll claim ~3500…
Yesterday I was berated on social media, and we need to have a conversation about it because there should be no cause for disagreement here. What did I post? Hi friends! A quick friendly reminder to stay home if you’re suffering from flu-like symptoms. The worst of the season is behind us, but influenza B…
On Tuesday I sat down and shared Jude with you. Some of you have been with me longer and already knew a lot of what I had to say, and some of you were hearing our story for the first time. (Facebook, Twitter, blog) Thank you, all of you who took the time to read…
Originally posted on Facebook, January 16, 2018 Today is Thomas and Jude’s birthday. Thomas is four, and Jude isn’t, and the reality of this is awful. I’ve been sitting on this post all morning, wishing for the right words. They aren’t coming. I miss my boy. I hate that Isla and Thomas had to learn…
There’s an elephant in the room. The media is reporting that this year’s flu shot is only 10% effective, and that isn’t the news that we want to hear. Higher effectiveness means better prevention, fewer hospitalizations, and more lives saved, and 10% isn’t ideal. BUT. While most reports are giving us this 10% figure and…
One of the things I’m asked about most frequently is the ingredients in the flu shot. Even though the flu shot is the most rigorously and frequently tested vaccine, even people who otherwise fully vaccinate sometimes question what goes into it. I get it. There’s a lot of rhetoric floating around and it’s easy to…
One year ago today we asked you to join us in a conversation that we’d been quietly having in our own home, with doctors, with experts, since a phone call that knocked us off our feet only eight weeks earlier. For months people had been asking for more information, looking for details, trying to figure…
Justin Trudeau is heading to New York tomorrow for two days packed with events. Part of that trip includes a discussion with Melinda Gates at the Goalkeepers Conference, on the heels of the report of the same name. The Gates Foundation have been painstakingly collecting data from around the world focusing on different areas of…
I remember those days in 1990, the early ones following my dad’s very sudden death on May 8th. I remember the way people rallied around us, the way they showed up. I remember people finding ways to show love to us when we needed it. I remember people telling us how much my dad meant…
Graphic has no sound and takes only six seconds! How’s THAT for a title? Catchy, right? More and more I hear people ask, ‘why is my unvaccinated child a risk to your vaccinated child if vaccines are so good?’ Here’s the thing. Vaccines are fantastic, but none of them is a 100% guarantee against…
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