JulieBhosaleAchive

It has taken me a little bit of time to process and reflect on the events that shook our country on Friday. As someone in a position of leadership within our community and the wife of an immigrant raising two sons of mixed race, I have a message and a request that I need to share. Please Do More. While I was shocked and heart broken at the horror of the actions from one human being to the innocent lives of others, I was also not surprised, which is possibly just as heart breaking. My husband and I will be married eight years this year and we have been together for 10 years. His best friend and who was his best man at our wedding is Muslim. For the entire decade I have been side-by-side with him I have witnessed first hand the hatred and racism directed right to his face – including this morning. No child is born hating another child. They have no idea about 'race' and 'skin colour'. Hatred does not just happen. It grows. It grows from the seeds of language imprinted int

As many of you know, we are trying for a third baby. We have been for some time. As expected, it’s been a process fraught with a lot of emotional turmoil. Initially a lot of this turmoil came from trying to figure out when . Our youngest son is now four. We never planned on having a big gap but I have had a few things on my plate (just a few) and a tight book publishing schedule for what will be my third year now. Working with a publishing company means that this schedule is unforgiving. It does have its advantages of providing a structure but to say it is not baby-friendly would be an understatement. This is aside from all other issues I have had with the company. Last year when we finally ‘worked out’ our ‘perfect time’ for our third bundle to arrive in the world it left us two months in which to conceive. Totally do-able right? And this would most likely require fertility treatment as well which is what we went through with Sahan due to a severe case of polycystic ovary syndrome. We