The Longest Shortest Time

EPISODE #42: Peeping Mom

Most people get through postpartum depression with therapy. But for Megan Stielstra, the answer was spying on her neighbor.

PODCAST #39: Owner of a Holey Heart

A baby gets two holes in his heart and a Mormon stranger comes to the rescue, believing she is doing something illegal.

EPISODE #21: The Numbers

After having a preemie, my friend Kirsten unwittingly takes on her husband’s personality, and becomes obsessed with numbers. To the decimal point.

We Can’t Stop: Skill Building Edition

Over the Christmas break, my husband and I went on a Sasha-less overnight excursion and left Sasha with my parents at their house. This is the second time we’ve done that, but Sasha was too young the first time to remember it. Word has it, she had a blast. Playing on the playground at the […]

The Worry Box Project

At least once a day someone tells me, “Oh, your daughter looks just like you!” Which is funny because toward the end of my pregnancy I’d have this recurring dream that she’d be born and she’d look exactly like my mother-in-law. And nobody would know she was mine. The dreams and anxieties we have about […]

EPISODE #8: Would’ve Been the Mean Mommy

An unexpected tragedy turns a mean mommy into a laid back one.