Sarah Wildman
By Sarah Wildman
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Life Our Good Fortune, the Flip Side of Separation
On a recent glorious Sunday — the type of beautiful fall day where the light is golden; the weather warm, but not overly so; a time for sweaters, but not jackets — I went to a flea market with my daughter, Orli; my partner, Ian, and my friend Stephanie. We spent a few hours picking…
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News What Does a Holiday of Renewal Mean for One Who Is Basically New?
On an August weekend blissfully free of this summer’s scorching heat, I attended a wedding in Manhattan, the marriage of a childhood friend. The event was beautiful. My sister, her husband and my parents were all there, and while my parents played a role in the ceremony, my partner, Ian, and I were asked to…
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News The Heart Vs. the Mind
My daughter, Orli, has reached the ripe old age of 18 months. She’s sure on her feet now: She runs, she hops, she climbs, she twirls. She can be the sweetest child that you’ve ever met, especially if she greets you at the door with arms and mouth wide open for an embrace and a…
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News A Time To Teach
The Talmud tells us to teach our children to swim, I mused to my father as we watched a 3-year-old toddler melt down in hysterics while refusing to enter a hotel pool. (Granted, every kid has his bad days.) My parents were in town visiting my 17-month-old daughter, Orli, and me; my partner, Ian, was…
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News Outstretched Arms: A Mentor’s Lasting Impact
The other day, my daughter and I went to a children’s reading hour at a bookstore by our home in Washington, D.C. As I juggled stroller and door at the entrance, a woman pushing a stroller came up to us. “Hello, Orli!” she exclaimed. I was taken aback. Orli smiled. I’d never seen the woman…
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News A Parent’s Responsibility To Observe
My daughter, Orli, is at a very lovely age. At 14 months, she’s of an incredibly sunny disposition, most of the time. She burbles and babbles and, occasionally, says a word. She laughs and runs and plays. She’s intensely interested in discovering and engaging the world around her. In restaurants, she wants to walk from…
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News C-Sections: A Birthing Debate Divides New Moms
Recently I was asked to participate in an art exhibit called “Cesarean Voices.” A call for submissions for the show, organized by the Baltimore chapter of the International Cesarean Awareness Network, explained that its aim is to “[educate] the public to the reality that cesareans can have profoundly negative physical and emotional consequences for women…
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News What’s in a Name?
My mother always regretted my middle name — Amy. She rues not giving me Lewis, her maiden name, which, to be honest, would have been cool, a wink at masculinity; meaningful. Sarah was a given, she’d known from childhood she would have a girl named Sarah. Sarah was for her mother who died, too young,…
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