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Kelsey Breseman

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The Memoirist

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Kelsey Breseman

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Oct 27

How’s That Green Card Coming Along?

I’m American, my husband is Australian, and our family is stuck in the UK while we wait for permission to live in the United States.

A Venn Diagram titled “Countries we’re allowed to live in”, showing that there’s no one country the whole family can legally live without fine print.

In

Age of Empathy

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Kelsey Breseman

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Oct 9

A Positive Birth Story

Laboring again after a traumatic birth

Line art of a woman, naked, bent over a baby in her arms

In

The Memoirist

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Kelsey Breseman

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Jul 9

What Gets You Through

Late pregnancy and athletic identity in the London heat waves

What Gets You Through

In

The Memoirist

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Kelsey Breseman

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Jun 19

Surviving the Joy

The struggle to stay human in at-home motherhood

Pencil sketch of a woman on a couch with a toddler climbing on her head and shoulders

Kelsey Breseman

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May 24

To Love a Child

Matrescence and my daily undoing

A line drawing of three people in a bed: A man and woman reach to hold each other’s arms while a small child rests horizontally between their faces, holding them apart

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Age of Empathy

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Kelsey Breseman

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May 17

My Son Has Given Me a Name

A child discovers communication

A two-toned drawing of a toddler reaching for the handle of a door, beyond which there is golden light.

Kelsey Breseman

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Apr 24

What They Should Tell You: Reprise

Health in pregnancy through the lens of a second-time mother

The author, pregnant, standing on a mountaintop

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Age of Empathy

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Kelsey Breseman

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Apr 6

Feeding the Baby: A Weaning Story

From first solids to the end of milk

A sketch of a very toothy baby approaching a nipple, hand pinching flesh

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Zenite

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Kelsey Breseman

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Feb 16

A Better First Trimester

Pregnancy while parenting a one-year-old

An exhausted woman with the start of a pregnancy belly lies on the floor reaching for a mixing bowl while a very happy toddler plays with crackers around her

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A-Culturated

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Kelsey Breseman

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Jan 23

Leaving the Village

What it took to rebuild community after moving overseas with a baby

A sketch of a couple with a pram looking back and waving at some people while their forward motion carries them off a cliff

Kelsey Breseman

Kelsey Breseman

An adventurer, engineer, indigenous Alaskan writing the nitty gritty. See my recent posts for free on Substack: https://ifoundtheme.substack.com/

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