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Re-Entry Into the Working World
In the blink of an eye, or so it seems, I was thrust into this new role of working mama. I wasn’t but eight hours in and the clichés were coming true – my phone was dinging with emails every two seconds, we were late for my son’s soccer game, I’d left the idea of (…) MORE »
Against Mother’s Day
There’s brunch, a carnation corsage at church, a day’s reprieve from doing the dishes, construction paper cards of tempera handprints, and maybe a Groupon massage, or a new scarf, or your very own fishing rod. All of it— even if distinctly cliché and eleventh-hour— from dimpled and striving hands, genuinely given. Researchers (who thought to (…) MORE »
Happy belated Mother’s Day from a 2-and-a-half-year-old mom
Living things change. They adapt and grow and die. Trees leaf out, snakes molt, babies grow up into frat boys. It just happens. Aren’t you glad I picked this picture instead of one of a frat boy? So why is it I thought the moment I had a baby that I would be a (…) MORE »
Dandelion Days
All this beauty You might have to close your eyes And slowly open wide All this beauty, we traveled all night We drank the ocean dry And watched the sun rise You can ask about it, but nobody knows the way No breadcrumb trail to follow through your days It takes an axe, sometimes a (…) MORE »
The Rabbit Hole
You start out on a journey without a compass or a clue. You don’t realize that nothing could have prepared you for this. You are hurled into a new timeless existence where day and night are just figments of your imagination. At first you are too bewildered to know what happened. You know you should (…) MORE »
Shutting Down
It is too big of a risk for me to write about the things I want—and need—most to write about on this blog. My 18-year-old daughter presents the most difficult and delicate parenting issues I currently face, and the problem is that she is one of my Facebook friends, where new posts of this blog (…) MORE »
