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The Fun and Games of College Tours

Last week, I took my younger daughter, a rising senior, on college tours.

Aug 12, 2024

The Fun and Games of College Tours

Aug 12, 2024

Blue Spaces

When Your Kid Becomes a Visitor

4d ago

Blue Spaces

4d ago

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Goodnight, Sleep Study

In keeping with 2025's assault on comfort and wellbeing, my son had a scheduled-six-months-ago sleep study last week.

Feb 11

Goodnight, Sleep Study

Feb 11

We Exist Now

I am looking at instagram, lost in so many stories of loss, while my youngest is in the bath. He is soaking in bubbles, as is required by…

Jan 28

We Exist Now

Jan 28

Of Christmas Chapels, Miracles and Holiday Traffic

Every year, when my older kids were younger, their small Episcopal K-8 would host a Christmas chapel on the last morning of school before…

Dec 23, 2024

Dec 23, 2024

Essaying While at a Loss

We have been at a loss this fall. Actually we have been at many.

Nov 17, 2024

Essaying While at a Loss

Nov 17, 2024

Parents Weekend for the Never Empty Nesters

We just returned from our older son’s parents weekend — he’s a sophomore but this was our first parents weekend at his school since last…

Oct 14, 2024

Parents Weekend for the Never Empty Nesters

Oct 14, 2024

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Beloved

Drop Offs and Little Things

And College, AGAIN

Sep 8, 2024

Drop Offs and Little Things

Sep 8, 2024

Published in
Beloved

Family Tourism

Traveling Through Place and Memory

Jul 8, 2024

Family Tourism

Jul 8, 2024

The Perfectly Bookended Cry of the College Graduates of 2024

My oldest graduated from college in May.

Jun 6, 2024

The Perfectly Bookended Cry of the College Graduates of 2024

Jun 6, 2024

Facility Part Two

From Apple to Oranges

May 25, 2024

Facility Part Two

May 25, 2024

Facility

Alone and Away, Part One

Apr 29, 2024

Facility

Apr 29, 2024

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Engage

Getting the Sky

Of Joy and Semblances in Southern California

Mar 24, 2024

Getting the Sky

Mar 24, 2024

The Sustainability of Magic

How to Make Your Own Miracle

Feb 14, 2024

The Sustainability of Magic

Feb 14, 2024

All Good Things

When College Breaks End

Jan 15, 2024

All Good Things

Jan 15, 2024

Rejoicing While Weary

How, Exactly

Dec 19, 2023

Rejoicing While Weary

Dec 19, 2023

Analog Your Algorithm

In Thanksgiving for Strangers

Nov 28, 2023

Analog Your Algorithm

Nov 28, 2023

Tripping

On the Road

Nov 9, 2023

Tripping

Nov 9, 2023

The Streak

Living with Epilepsy, Counting the Seconds

Oct 10, 2023

The Streak

Oct 10, 2023

It Goes

The College Drop-off Drop

Sep 8, 2023

It Goes

Sep 8, 2023

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Jen Murphy Parker is a San Francisco-based writer exploring what exists in the middle - of parenting, of health, of life.

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