This morning as I got ready for work, I turned on the new Netflix documentary “Pray Away” to have on in the background. Instagram flooded me with ads about it for days and touted that it was content I would resonate with. “Pray Away” sheds light on the “ex-gay” movement and gay conversion therapy, which…
Trying to Reach Across the Aisle
Written by Saron Bryan I am a progressive, white woman living in the Deep South (Georgia). The journey I went on to arrive at my current political position has been long, and at times, tumultuous. I grew up in an evangelical church, as many do in the South. I went to pro-life rallies in Washington…
Charlottesville was my Fault
Written by Josh Bryan I live in rural Northeast Georgia, and was raised in rural Upstate South Carolina. I grew up hearing the black kids called monkeys and the n word at the playground in elementary school. I’ve heard members of my family say derogatory things about other races, including these racial slurs. I was…
Protected: Charlottesville was my Fault
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My Slow Descent into Hippie-hood
Okay, so it’s not that slow. It’s happened all at once. I would say that my transition into being a crunchy hippie started with the decision to use cloth diapers with Lily. I’ve talked about that before on the blog, but it more or less came out of a desire to save a pretty good…
Life with Lily: Things I Didn’t Know Could Happen
This blog is going to be part life update, and part product review. I want to say up front, I’m doing the product review on my own volition. Just a real parent who had a real struggle (that is apparently common, I just didn’t know about it), who found a product that saved her butt….
I have a happy baby.
There are pretty much two things that people always say to me about Lily. 1. “She’s beautiful!” I agree, masses, she is beautiful. She’s pretty much the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen. As my very humble husband would say, “perfect genes.” 2. “She’s so happy!” Again, I agree. She’s a seriously happy baby. This…
Life with Lily: Three Month Update
Lily is THREE MONTHS OLD! Well, she’s more like 3 1/2 months old at the time of writing this, but, you know. I realize that I have gone from posting every week to posting more like every other month, so, sorry about that. But having a baby is busy! So, she is doing all kinds…
Life with Lily: Our Birth Story
So now that Lily is one month old, I figured I’d better get around to writing her birth story! On August 31, Josh and I went to Athens for my regular, weekly checkup with the OB. At the last appointment I’d made basically 0 progress, so I was really hoping that I would at least…
Two Weeks Later: Postpartum Warfare
This is my beautiful daughter, Lily. She was born on September 2, 2016, on her due date. She’s very punctual, like her mama. I’m planning on writing about her birth story in another blog, but this one is going to be about something a little bit different, and it’s definitely not something that I usually…
Pregnancy: Week 39
Welp, y’all, this is it!! We’re going to the hospital tonight!! But more on that later… Physical Symptoms It would seem that every pregnancy discomfort I’ve experienced the past 39 weeks has all peaked within the last few days. My fingers in both hands are pretty much constantly numb, my feet and and hands/arms are…
Pregnancy: Week 38
Physical Symptoms Y’all, I am OVER it. It’s definitely true that every trimester has posed its own set of discomforts. The first trimester is hard because you’re sick all the time and so exhausted from being sick. The second trimester is hard because, at least for me, that was the point where sleeping started to…
Sarondipity Universe 