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The owl arrived four days before my son did.
It sat on the fence just outside our kitchen window, unusually close, wrapped in the stillness of potential. We lived among owls and often heard them calling through the trees at night, but I had never seen one remain so close for so long. Back home on Maui, the Pueo was spoken of as a protector, a spirit appearing at thr...
My obsessive-compulsive disorder is a mental health issue that has many “invisible” (or, intangible and unseen) aspects, which affect how I sleep, work, and even raise my daughters. I catalogue the sounds my daughters make when playing or at rest, and the “abnormal” ones immediately pitch my thoughts toward distress. They must be sick, choking, or hurting. Lying in bed at the...
I remember looking out the window the morning after my son was born. My view from the hospital was on level with an adjacent roof. Workers, a nurse warned, were known to walk across it, could peer in. “Just something to be aware of,” she told me, and I can remember finding this funny, my room a fishbowl—me and the baby inside it.
But that morning, that roof was cove...