by Barbara Buckner Suárez | parenting
Image by coastventures from Pixabay Maybe you saw this on Instagram recently… It’s about juggling. “Upworthy” posted it and it was a tweet thread written by Jennifer Lynn Barnes about an experience she had. Barnes writes: “One time I was at a Q&A with Nora...
by Barbara Buckner Suárez | activism, disparity, racism
If you’re a white mother reading the headlines or watching Minneapolis burn and you’re not outraged, ask yourself one question: Why not? On this blog I’ve established that I’m not someone who cries very often: a couple of times a year, perhaps; on the other side of...
by Barbara Buckner Suárez | COVID-19, support
Recently, I’ve had some thoughtful conversations with parents of young children under the COVID-19 quarantine and I feel moved to try and capture some of the particular challenges they’re experiencing. My offer is to be a go-between in communicating what they might...
by Barbara Buckner Suárez | COVID-19
March 13th was the last time I hugged someone who wasn’t my husband or one of my four children. I’ve had exactly four safe social distancing hangouts with people who don’t live with me. For an “etremeovert” like me (extreme extrovert) these are not happy times, ya’ll....
by Barbara Buckner Suárez | 4th trimester, new normal
How long is this going to take??? Every one of us around the world has been asked to isolate ourselves in our homes for an unspecified amount of time and figure out what our new normal looks like. I’ve been writing about the 4th Trimester and the idea of a new normal...
by Barbara Buckner Suárez | parenting, vulnerability
UPDATE: Just a quick note to add that things have changed SO much since I posted this blog! My salsa-dancing 20 year-old was placed in curfew in Puerto Rico and we worried that she wasn’t going to get back to the states! Thankfully, she’s made it to...
by Barbara Buckner Suárez | partners
I was on a trip with my husband to Boston to attend my god-daughter’s baptism. I was HUGELY pregnant with my first. Hours before the big event, I remember holding her sleeping body against mine when the urge struck: I needed to pee, and I needed to pee NOW! Her...
by Barbara Buckner Suárez | 4th trimester, Second Baby
When you become a parent for the SECOND time an interesting thing happens. Everyone around you is like, “Yay! You’re going to have another baby! How exciting!” And then… crickets! There’s an assumption that because you’ve done this thing once before, there’s really no...
by Barbara Buckner Suárez | Becoming Us
The Third Edition of Becoming Us is available NOW! And I’m so excited to be the first stop on Elly Taylor’s virtual Book Blog Tour! Once upon a time, my Mom and I were having a discussion about something that might have been a bit controversial. I can’t...
by Barbara Buckner Suárez | reality, relationship
By the time you’re reading this, I will have dropped my kids off to school, kissed them goodbye and headed into a weekend with my husband to celebrate 23 years of marriage… Twenty-three years?! That’s a LOT of time, my friends! We’ve reached the point where we’ve been...
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