by Ashley Olivine | Jul 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
Recent life events have prompted/inspired me to question the stages of grief. This is because my experience of grief hasn’t fully fit into those stages. At first, I didn’t get it. Surely it wasn’t grief I was experiencing. Well, perhaps it wasn’t. Spoiler alert: it...
by Ashley Olivine | Jun 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
Here I stand, in two different worlds, with one foot in the United States and the other in Ukraine. They are both my home, and I no longer feel whole. I am an American. For the past (almost) three years my family and I have lived in Ukraine. It became home, the only...
by Ashley Olivine | May 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
Parenting through hard times like death, serious illness, or transition is just not the same as normal life parenting. This is because parents and kids have different needs, and sometimes those needs are conflicting. For example, a parent may need extra alone time...
by Ashley Olivine | Apr 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
I began writing about my evacuation journey to process my thoughts and feelings because that works for me. You may have caught my previous post – Luck of an Evacuee. That one is (mostly) about evacuee life before the invasion. This one builds on it. These are the...
by Ashley Olivine | Mar 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
This is not going to be anything like my typical blog posts. It’s going to be raw, real, unpolished, messy, and personal, because that’s what I am right now. More importantly, that’s what I think my people need, what you need, if you choose to read. If you’re ready to...
by Ashley Olivine | Oct 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
Hey there Amazing Mama, I see you. Yes, you, the one reading this (stop looking over your shoulder). It’s you and you really are amazing. I see you burning the candle at both ends day after day. Let’s not even start with the amount of sleep you get (or don’t get)....
