Category Archives: Articles
Gone But Not Forgotten
I don’t know why I hung onto them, but I have. Really they are just a couple sheets of paper that can easily be put into a box or tucked in the pages of a book to be forgotten, but I didn’t forget. While I don’t think about them everyday, I never did throw them [...]
Princesses Don’t Eat Cake
I applaud Dove’s revolutionary efforts toward a cultural embrace of real women with real curves, yet I cannot deny the impact of body image messages handed down generationally. Like many young ladies, I became keenly aware of body image around the age of puberty, which for me occurred soon after Richard Simmons became popular. Headbands [...]
The Hardest Thing
While I was working on this month’s post, a friend sent me a message about a film that a colleague of hers had done. He’d put it on Kickstarter.com—a web site that helps people raise money for projects—and was looking for backers. She thought I might be interested in it. I was. This is the [...]
Mommy Fight Club
It’s a makeshift ring. The match-up is uneven but intense, becoming a barnburner. In Corner 1: “Mama” Schmidt—5’1,” 100#– a four-year veteran of the club. In Corner 2: “Little G” Schmidt—17# 11 oz., 27”—an unmistakable natural. The bell rings. Mama begins to sway, slowly, steady as a cobra, experience coaching that stillness is death. Little [...]
My Shadow
My Shadow My last blog post about my son’s medical issues was depressing, even to me, and so in early December I resolved that this month I’d write about the more humorous side of our lives. It was the holidays, after all. I was bound to get good material. Then in mid-December my beloved cat [...]
Saying Goodbye, Saying Hello
Here I sit on the last day of 2011. I am sure we are all in very similar places today, reflecting on the year that we have just traveled through, setting our hopes for the year ahead. As I stood at the grocery store this morning for the quick trip for milk and tampons, I [...]
