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Why You Should And How You Can Know Your Roots

(I would like to preface this piece by acknowledging that there is a large amount of privilege in one knowing anything substantial about…

Jan 20, 2021

Why You Should And How You Can Know Your Roots

Jan 20, 2021

I hadn’t run for several days, not since before Christmas.

This year I also had a pandemic to contend with. Naturally I assumed one of us would contract the coronavirus just in time for Christmas…

Jan 13, 2021

I hadn’t run for several days, not since before Christmas.

Jan 13, 2021

Endurance

I remember my breath tasted funny…like potato chips. As I huffed around the perimeter of the middle school’s field hockey and football…

Dec 28, 2020

Endurance

Dec 28, 2020

It’s Complicated: Navigating Marriage and Election Season

When a democrat and a republican are navigating marriage and election season in the era of Trump.

Oct 14, 2020

It’s Complicated: Navigating Marriage and Election Season

Oct 14, 2020

Sitting in the Unknown

I’m twenty weeks pregnant, half way through a very much longed for pregnancy. I have two other children, one who came when I was twenty…

Dec 10, 2019

Dec 10, 2019

That Time I Became A Teen Mom, Part 2

July 21st, 2007 was a beautiful day. I remember how the sun filtered in through the windows of my dad’s truck as he drove me from…

Oct 1, 2019

That Time I Became A Teen Mom, Part 2

Oct 1, 2019

That Time I Became A Teen Mom, Part One

“I can’t see the line. You’re crazy.”

Sep 23, 2019

That Time I Became A Teen Mom, Part One

Sep 23, 2019

So, You Want to Read Tarot Cards

“When someone is able to perform the art of touching on the archetypal, he can play on the souls of people like on the strings of a…

Sep 9, 2019

So, You Want to Read Tarot Cards

Sep 9, 2019

The Day I Stopped Caring About Being Fat

The day was absolutely gorgeous. My little boy had tucked his hand into mine and we walked down the causeway in a little lake town in…

Aug 4, 2018

The Day I Stopped Caring About Being Fat

Aug 4, 2018

When You Suck at Being a Perfectionist

I am one of those people who is very good at looking like she has her shit together in a singular area of her life. For me, it’s work. I…

Jul 31, 2018

When You Suck at Being a Perfectionist

Jul 31, 2018

Kirsten Pietraszka

Kirsten Pietraszka

Mom, wife, and teacher who would like to be awesome at all three of those things, but is really only good at, like, one and a half.

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