Category Archives: brain break
Concert-going: then and now
“Why don’t I just go pick up D’s burrito and go drop J off at S’s so that you can have some extra time to finish at work and then we can just meet at the house and go.” This? The culmination of our plot to escape the vacuum of our family life for a (…) MORE »
Starting Somewhere
You have to start somewhere. That’s the line that’s on repeat in my head today. I’ve been reading The Mists of Avalon for the last couple of months. In case you haven’t heard of it, it’s a cult classic re-telling of the Arthurian Legend from the perspective of the women. I just finished the last (…) MORE »
Laughed So Hard, Thought I’d Cry
You know what a mother needs sometimes? Well, yes, okay, vodka, but that isn’t what I’m going for here. Laughter. A sense of humor, people! There is so much stress in this job—seriously, deep-sea oil-rig workers got nothing on us—that it’s important to grab onto the hilarity whenever you can. In that spirit, I offer (…) MORE »
An Honest Mom on Zen and The Domestic Arts
I spend most of my days doing housework. For the last 2 years, I’ve wrestled with what that means about my identity and value in the world. After my recent reality tv bender, I found that doing the dishes isn’t the worst thing on earth after all. www.anhonestmom.wordpress.com
