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I am a freelance writer with a focus on informational content centered around parenting, wellness, and holistic living. My writing style is grounded in clarity, practicality, and research-based insight, making complex topics easier for everyday readers to understand and apply. I occasionally will write funny parenting stories as well.
I am especially interested in how families can improve their well-being through simple, sustainable lifestyle choices. This includes topics like mindful parenting strategies, stress reduction techniques, nutrition awareness, and creating balanced home environments.
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The Blueberry Incident
I heard the crack.
It was not loud, just the soft snap of plastic giving up on life. It wasn't loud, it was just the soft snap of plastic giving away on a case of blueberries, followed by a pause that felt suspiciously intentional. I turned my head slowly, already bracing for it, and saw my son holding an upside-down case of blueberries like he’d just discovered gravity.
Then they started falling.
One blueberry rolled out. Then three. Then approximately eight million. Of course we got the jumbo pack this time.
They scattered across the grocery store floor like tiny blue marbles designed specifically to humiliate me. Tiny, rolling witnesses to the exact moment my “quick trip” to Kroger unraveled at almost nine months pregnant. A few nearby shoppers glanced over, then quickly looked away. Under carts. Toward strangers. Into places blueberries should never go. My son stared in horror as his beloved snack escaped him, and then, naturally, he burst into tears.
And there I was, very noticeably pregnant, exhausted, swollen, and crouching awkwardly trying to gather runaway fruit while silently praying my water would not break like this.
The Night Everything Changed
Families rarely fall apart all at once. For my sister Daisy, everything shifted during one argument in our kitchen when she was sixteen years old. A life altering moment that would define the rest of her life. At the time, none of us realized that our childhood home we were standing in would never feel the same again.
Now, eight years later, Daisy sits curled into the corner of her couch in a small apartment in Germany. She’s twenty-four, expecting her first child, and speaking about the past with a kind of distance that only time can create. Outside her window, life moves normally. Cars pass through the nearby military base, neighbors laugh while grilling, music drifts through open windows, but inside, her voice softens whenever she talks about our father and Rachel, the woman who became our stepmother.
“It wasn’t really about one fight,” she says quietly. “That fight was just when everything finally broke.”
For most of our early childhood, things felt stable. It was just us, our siblings, and our parents. Even after our parents divorced, there was still a rhythm to our lives. We moved between homes, adjusted to schedules, and learned how to exist in two different worlds. Daisy, especially, stayed very close to our dad.
That dynamic began to shift when Rachel entered the picture.
Dad met Rachel when Daisy was fifteen. Rachel was structured, precise, and very different from the easygoing atmosphere we were used to. Where our home had once felt flexible and relaxed, Rachel brought rules, routines, and expectations that felt immediate and firm.
A Mouthful of Air directed by Amy Koppleman, Sony Pictures, October 2021is a psychological drama starring Amanda Seyfried (Julie) and Finn Wittrock (Ethan). Julie struggles with postpartum depression, and this movie makes you feel the love for her children and hate for herself. This touching and tearful film features continuity editing, distinctive style of work, and an educational impact on society.
Exploring the complexity of the continuity editing to story tell A Mouthful of Air starts with flashbacks from when Julie tried to take her own life, and what happened the following months. The editing jumps between current life for their family, her drawings as she authors her book, what happened after she tried to commit suicide, her childhood, and her family in the future. The storytelling is special in its own way, as you get to watch several contrasting times of Julie’s life.
The flashbacks of after she tried to commit suicide show the grief and tension between their family, and you can feel the emotions through the words not spoken. The actors make you believe this is their real life. Amanda and Finn did an amazing job portraying a real family. Ethan tip toes through life with his wife and struggles to know if she is mentally ill. As you watch this actor struggle with thinking anyone else would be a better mother to her children than her, it makes you really think about what goes on in new mother’s thoughts in your life.
The drawings on the screen as if you are the one with the artistic ability is a first for me to see in this film. The cinematographers were fantastic. There are down-to-earth scenes of Julie at the doctor’s offices. The realistic conversations that occur postpartum are portrayed how readers felt being in the chair too. The cinematography is like you are in their world, and like you too, are at the doctor’s offices or in their brightly colored homes. Amy Koppleman did a wonderful job directing this film to be realistic to the targeted audience of mothers.
The characters in her book are edited several times across the screen to show how Julie is feeling and to play the plot of the children’s book she is writing. The editing was skill full, and you could sense the emotions through the book. A scene opens of her playing with her father as a little girl, and it leads the watchers to wonder if Julie was abused by him growing up. The editing makes you ponder is mental illness run in her family.
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