The stories of our own lives require active searching—learning to look through our memories in a new way. To find story in your life, you must engage imagination with memory; you must invent a line of continuity—not from nothing, but from the raw materials of your life. It’s like reading a pattern in DNA or …
Author: Julia K. Garza
The Nursing Mama’s Best Friend
There are a lot of things to love about breastfeeding, but one thing I didn’t particularly care for was just how much time I spent doing it at the beginning. A fellow Stroller Strides mama is expecting her second baby any day. I wanted to give her something I knew she would use. I remembered …
A Birthday Crown
I whipped up this DIY felt birthday crown last week. It’s for a little boy, G, who’s turning one soon and celebrating with a Very Hungry Caterpillar birthday party. The pattern is from Amanda Soule’s The Creative Family: How to Encourage Imagination and Nurture Family Connections and it’s a very quick project. Wool felt is always …