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It’s a 50 mile race. Each gal takes 1-2 legs lasting anywhere from 3- 12 miles until the finish line. We get ready for it by running together throughout the year. We share the intimate details of our lives, while exercising our legs and lungs. It’s one of my favorite times, and these are some […]

Oct 6, 2020

It was a bustling night in the Children’s Emergency Department. I had just started my weekend shift as the Child Life Specialist on call. A Child Life What, you ask? I was 2 years into my new career, offering psycho-social support to patients and families for various emergency procedures like stitches, rehydration, enemas, casts, and […]

  It was eerily quiet one morning, which is an immediate alarm for a mother of all boys that something suspicious is going on. I found two-and-a-half-year old Gunnar in the playroom with a ring of chocolate around his lips. I surveyed the room looking for clues and found none. I walked through the house […]

Jeff, Gunnar, Tomas & Pete just minutes after The Story Of One Pole Holsen This day is forever etched in our family book of memories. It was our 4th day on the slopes of Whistler – Blackcomb Mountains. 3 of those days the boys participated in ski school – learning this lifelong skill from various […]