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ESSAYS&

ARTICLES
Amy Aves Challenger

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My articles, opinion pieces, essays, and narratives are often grounded with research and reporting on:
parenting, justice, faith, fitness, travel, education, technology, and nature.  

The Institute for Science and Policy

Free to Wander: The Benefits of Urban Trails

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The Information

A Girl Killed Herself. It Took TikTok Six Months to Remove Her Account.

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Trail Runner Magazine

I Run to Process What Refugees Teach

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International Living Magazine

5 Tips for travel without crowds

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The New Internationalist

Switzerland Wants to Deport a Boy with Half a Heart

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Your Teen Magazine

How I Learned to Love Connecting Through Technology

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Will My Teens Ever Be The Same After All of This

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Swiss Info
National Newspaper in English)

Switzerland is finding strength through kindness

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New In Zürich

How Thanksgiving in Switzerland
Became Far More Than A Meal

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Taking the "X" Out of Expat

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The Independent

I attend an Evangelical church, and I'm not buying what Trump is selling

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A Message to Trump from the white suburban housewives you love:

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Typing on a Laptop

Huffington Post U.S.

A full listing of my Huffpost work can be found here. Following are my most recent Huffpost pieces:

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I Finally Found A School That Believes In My Child— In Switzerland

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Mothering Mistakes Make Us Stronger

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Remember, Someone Out There Needs Your Help

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To All The Kids Without a School

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When We Call Little Girls 'Fat' We Kill Their Dreams

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Running For My Life

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To The Beautiful Mom Having A Panic Attack In The Grocery Store

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To Those Mocking the Snowflakes and the Whiners

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If You're a Mother, And Sometimes You Feel Alone

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Dear Teachers, You Could Be the Sun and the Moon

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Huffington Post France

Je cours depuis toujours et rien ni personne
ne m'empêchera de continuer

 

Washington Post

How One Mom Found Her Way...

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Brain, Child Magazine

I Just Needed A Hand

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MOPS International

Magazine 


Be Gutsy

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Running For My Life

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Don't Worry, My Child

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MOPS International

Blog (column)
 

Aren't We Beautiful?

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Becoming An Adventurer (Again)

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A Passage From Longing To Motherhood

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Why Your Story Matters, Mama

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A Tribe of Foreigners

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The Powerful Seed of Kindness

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Marin Independent Journal

Sheltering Our Children In Marin

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Medium

Featured, Parenting

When My Son Asked "Why'd you even have children..."

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Featured Publication, Be Yourself

When We Try to Box and Categorize Refugees

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