When my son started preschool, he cried almost every day, at some level, for several months. If the kids were in a different classroom when we arrived, his whole body would tense up, and he’d cling to me as he burst into tears. From the time he was born, anything that changed his routine in [...]
It has been five weeks. We’ve had food, shelter, friends, love. And yet, its absence has created tensions in our little island. The natives are used to its regular use for survival. As the mother of the tribe, I’ve born the responsibility of digging deep into the depths of my creativity to avert attention and [...]
I’m usually fascinated by trends but there’s one that’s been bugging me since I started blogging in 2004 and I say it’s time to bring it to an end: it is apparently just not cool to be in a regular state of happiness. Expressing giddiness, evidently, is a social crime. Open admissions to actually (gasp!) [...]
My son has a poet’s soul and an overflowing, heavy heart. He feels so deeply, so genuinely, so purely. He is able to see and feel things in situations that sometimes adults miss. This creates a sweetness in his intentions and a gentleness in his actions toward others and the world around him. He gets [...]
SPOILER ALERT: Don’t read this if you haven’t seen the finale The End yet. In my mind, television is supposed to inspire us in the same way books are. Our mind creates the characters as we want to see them, the writing forces us to think and dream up possibilities, and we’re transported into an [...]
Besides the obvious wider hips & thighs and crying-for-lipo mid-section, becoming a mother has shaped the person I have always been into the person I have wanted to be. I can honestly say that being a mom is what has forced me to be happy with me. Fifteen years ago, I would have laughed in [...]
“Cupcakes are my FAVORITE!” announced my daughter, and so was born the theme of her 3rd birthday party. I’m still recovering emotionally from the joy of watching my daughter turn 3 and physically from the exhaustion that comes from a week of mad dash scrambling to throw the party details all together. Without further ado, [...]
The kids and I like to do a lot of crafts, and the biggest lesson for me is always to revel in the mess and let the kids’ creativity take them wherever it is they want to go. For Valentine’s Day, the kids helped me as I designed their cards and stickers. Done within the [...]
It’s January 6th. Six days in, and I’m already playing catch-up. With work, with household responsibilities, with mothering responsibilities, blogging responsibilities. Really, how could this happen? It’s January 6th for Pete’s sake! (And, by the way, who the heck is Pete?!) I’m organized. I have lists. I schedule things by the minute on these many [...]
I’m totally kidding about that headline, but I’ve always wanted to say it to annoying strangers who get in my kids’ faces at the grocery store. My kids are my greatest teachers, and perhaps the best lesson they have given me is that no person – be it Mother, Father, Teacher – has the ability [...]
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