by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk, Parenting
For most of my adult life, I thought home was supposed to look a certain way. A house you owned. Rooms filled with furniture you picked out carefully. Closets that somehow never stayed organized. A place that anchored you, even when life felt chaotic. That’s what we...
by Shadra Bruce | Parenting
Some people don’t understand our lifestyle, traveling for our grandkids. But when our daughter and her family moved to England five years ago, I felt a mix of pride and heartache. Pride, because she had the courage to follow her own path and build a life...
by Shadra Bruce | Parenting
I want to acknowledge that not every parent-child relationship evolves in the way I describe here, and that even though I celebrate the place I have arrived at with my kids as young adults wasn’t always an easy or straight path. There have been painful moments...
by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk, Travel
Getting Real with Shadra Bruce When we first sold our home and nearly everything we owned to travel full-time, I thought I understood what “letting go” meant. I thought it was about things—furniture, clothes, knick-knacks, the dozens of little mementos we collect over...
by Shadra Bruce | Self-Improvement
Allyship is an important part of any movement. It’s far easier for people in positions of power to ignore something when it’s just small portions of oppressed groups speaking up. Having people with far more privilege make noise with everyone else gives the movement a...
