Pippin and Patience
December 11, 2014 Pippin and Patience Sometimes when my children are screaming I pretend I’m not their mother, and feel bad for whatever poor shmuck is. I slept like crap list night. My gut is bad and I’m up and down all night. The alarm goes off at 6:15 and my first thought is, […]
Domestic Geology
December 4, 2014 Domestic Geology As preparation for the, um, 40-50 folks who passed through my house last Thanksgiving weekend, I did some deep cleaning. As in, looking into the nooks and crannies in my kids’ toy bins. I put on my sloppy clothes and protective goggles, took a final breath of the clean top-world […]
But Fear Itself
November 26, 2014 But Fear Itself Over the past couple of weeks – more since the election, I suppose – a couple of times readers of my blogs have cautioned me to “be careful. You have a lot of fans.” While I really appreciate concern from anyone, I’m not sure what this means. My […]
Wazed and Confused
Novemer 25, 2014 Wazed and Confused I’m not great with time. Ask anyone. I cram too much in, I leave too late, I end up reverting to what my husband calls, “magical thinking” when it comes to commuting. “It’s okay, it’s okay!” I protest, “I have 15 minutes to travel what normally takes […]
Unified
November 22, 2014 Unified Maybe it’s me, or maybe it’s menopause, but there are so many moments in my life these days where I’m not sure if I’m where I’m supposed to be. I visit a friend in a quaint small town. “I could live here! What would it be like to live here? […]
Update
Novemer 16, 2014 Update For those of you – so many of you – that read and responded to the post “When Anything Can Happen,” I wanted to keep you in the loop. You have become part of my far-flung circle, as I hope I have become part of yours. The weather finally cooled […]
Jane and Gloria and Frances
October 22, 2014 Jane and Gloria and Frances I don’t want to write about Renee Zellweger. Or rather, that’s not all I want to write about. I got off a daylong flight and checked what the world was chatting about. Twitter and Facebook: our modern village gossip sites. Amid Ebola and Isis, there was […]
Mama Chimp
October 6, 2014 Mama Chimp So yesterday I sat in church happy, heartbroken and annoyed. Happy to be in that beloved spot, always terra firma in the uneven terrain that is my mind. Heartbroken for the endless woes afflicting the earth and my human family. Such a hard time we’re all having – […]
When Anything Can Happen
September 23, 2014 When Anything Can Happen As most of you know, my daughter has an intellectual disability. Much of my heart opening path has stemmed from that, and parenting in general. If I didn’t have children, I would think my shit didn’t stink. But in the most loving of ways (or not) my kids […]
Changes
September 14, 2014 Changes My son turned 9 in June. Always a thoughtful, precocious dude (in his mama’s indulgent eyes anyway), he has now entered what Rudolf Steiner termed “the nine year change.” My kids started out in a Waldorf school and if I were a good Waldorf mother I could quote chapter and verse […]