Chasing Normal

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🚂 Cracked Track Parenting: The Group for Parents Who Are Making It Up as They Heal
They say you parent the way you were parented—unless you veer off course, reroute your inner chaos, and start laying down new track in real time.
 • Lisa Gerardy
The great Great Dane Rearranging of it’s Still Dark O’clock
Chris and I never wanted to be a dog parent cautionary tale, but here we are.
 • Lisa Gerardy
My Mother at 80
Today is my mother’s 80th birthday. Yes, I said IS, not would have been as people often say when someone is dead but they are remembering a birthday.
 • Lisa Gerardy
Through the Fog
I can barely see her through the gray mist, even though I am standing right next to her.
 • Lisa Gerardy
Lessons Learned from an Alaskan Cruise
I just got back from a week of cruising to Alaska with my husband on Discovery Princess.
 • Lisa Gerardy
Perpetual Panic Attacks
I remember feeling like something bad was going to happen when Hillary’s mom dropped us off at Six Flags Atlantis. Hillary and I were 13 and we were…
 • Lisa Gerardy
Golden Stepdad Rules
There I was on a Monday afternoon walking through Shanghai on the treadmill when I heard my stepdad’s voice telling me, “Do it now, kid!
 • Lisa Gerardy
Lisa's Ten Tiresome FB Friends
Originally published on HuffPo in 2014
 • Lisa Gerardy
Chasing Normal all the way to the END of Summer
☀️ End of Summer Beach Read Special!
 • Lisa Gerardy
This Is How It Ends
That is what I thought while hunched over on the toilet as my entire abdomen spasmed like it had developed its own internal earthquake detection system…
 • Lisa Gerardy
Off the Tracks Memoir Coaching
Helping You Write the Story That Won’t Leave You Alone
 • Lisa Gerardy
If you’re keeping IT
“You can get the vitamins on your way out if you’re keeping it.”
 • Lisa Gerardy
He’s Not the Step-Dad. He’s The Dad.
Some men marry into fatherhood.
 • Lisa Gerardy
Five Facebook Gurus Who Need to Log Off
About ten years ago, I wrote 10 Tiresome Facebook Friends, a brave exposé on the types of people who make you want to launch your phone into a volcano.
 • Lisa Gerardy
Chasing Normal
Chasing Normal
After 50 years on the planet, I'm still trying to be normal
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