Degrees in Idealism

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You May Be A Parent, But You’re Also Still A Person

05.31.2017 by Elizabeth Hanna Pham // Leave a Comment

Almost four years ago my first baby was born, and while I was overwhelmed by the love, beauty, and tenderness of it all, intro to parenthood totally turned my world upside down. I knew to expect sleepless nights, anxiety, exhaustion, etc. What I didn’t expect was the loneliness. At the time, I was the only […]

Categories // Culture, Family Tags // #friendship, #humanity, #motherhood, #parenthood, #relationships

Watch the New Beauty and the Beast– If Only For the Ending

04.24.2017 by Elizabeth Hanna Pham // Leave a Comment

I went into Beauty and the Beast with somewhat low expectations. The cartoon version was always one of my favorite movies, and I hadn’t heard the best reviews of the remake. One of the reviews I found most striking argued that there was something forced, strange, and off-putting about the story being live-action in the first […]

Categories // Beauty, Culture Tags // #art, #beautyandthebeast, #fairytales, #love, #moviereview, #movies

Why all the moms you see look stressed

01.11.2017 by Elizabeth Hanna Pham // 2 Comments

The other day I saw a picture on social media of a little girl dressed as a “mom” for Halloween. It wasn’t a flattering depiction. The little girl had painted bags under her eyes and messy hair and she was dressed in a t-shirt covered in fake spit-up. She was dragging a baby doll behind […]

Categories // Culture, Family Tags // #childhood, #children, #koselig, #modernity, #motherhood, #parenthood

How to participate in gift-giving without participating in materialism

12.06.2016 by Elizabeth Hanna Pham // 1 Comment

Materialism is an obvious problem in America and it is made more obvious during the holiday season. Many people blame Christmas, or at least Christmas gift-giving, for this materialism. But materialism can happen with or without gifts. Whether it be iPads or beach trips or going out to bars, we become materialistic when we are […]

Categories // Beauty, Culture, Family Tags // #children, #christmas, #gifts, #love, #materialism

What is an animal that is not nocturnal?

11.30.2016 by Elizabeth Hanna Pham // Leave a Comment

My three year old turned to me, and asked, urgently, What’s it called when an animal is NOT nocturnal? Hmm. I don’t know. That’s a good question. He paused for a few moments and, maybe one day when me and Nicholas are big we can go and find a dragonfly. And then we can ask […]

Categories // Beauty, Culture, Soul Tags // #beauty, #livinginthepresent, #technologyproblems, #wonder

How to protect our children from social media

10.24.2016 by Elizabeth Hanna Pham // Leave a Comment

It’s difficult to figure out where the line is in sharing our children with the social media world. Of course, some sharing is natural and good. Parents are proud of their children and those children can inspire and bring joy to other people. But when the sharing is not organic— when it happens on these exponential […]

Categories // Culture, Family Tags // #babies, #instagram, #oversharing, #socialmedia

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About Me

I'm Elizabeth. I'm a wife, a mother to four little boys (and another little boy on the way,) a writer, and a lover and seeker of the beautiful, the true, and the good. I am a believer in idealism-- that even amidst the chaos and the confusion, the exhaustion and the sadness of life there is always joy to be found, hope to be clung to, and a better path to be taken. I write my thoughts on this blog. Links to my fiction books are at the bottom of the page.

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