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Category Archives: Blog
Train is a Comin’
I feel like I’m about to be mowed down by a high-speed train filled to the brim with radioactive orange sludge. Maybe you feel the same way. Here are some ideas for what we can do under such circumstances: 1) … Continue reading
Sunday Morning, Naked.
Ace gets up, agitated in his appointed role of The One Who Has To Take The Big E To Hockey. I lie in bed and listen to the fussing and whining. And then silence. I get up. ”E! Get up! … Continue reading
The Space Between
Ace, The Big E, and I traipsed over to our friends’ house New Year’s Eve and made sushi. (Lest you think I’ve completely lost my medical mind, let me assure you that I ate the slightly less raw fish.) We … Continue reading
Merry Christmas, Thief
To the person who stole my identity last week: We need to talk. Your timing was, shall we say, suboptimal. I realize you probably thought you were being helpful, applying for all those credit cards using my name, date-of-birth, and … Continue reading
The Darkest Days
The first week of December, a young Minnesota mother died by suicide. The effects of her death rippled through my FaceBook feed, particularly impacting the breastfeeding, attachment parenting, and ECFE communities. I read some of the details of her story, … Continue reading
The Non-Reproducible Cheeseball
Food management is not one of my strengths. I cook because we eat, not from a place of wholesome domestic joy. Over the years, Ace and I have strategized approaches to meal-planning: Monday is Fish Night, Tuesday is Taco Tuesday, … Continue reading
Guest Post Monday – Ode to a Black Cooking Pot
My parents accumulate people. There were always extras around our home, for Thanksgiving, for Christmas, for Sunday afternoon generic communing. Mom and Dad downsized about ten years ago. Fortunately, they didn’t downsize their desire to informally adopt a lovely variety … Continue reading
Thanksgiving – Off the Beaten Path
So. Family and Friends. Let’s just get that one out of the way right off the bat. Great. Here’s a list of other stuff I’m thankful for in no particular order: 1) curiosity 2) pain sensation 3) music 4) butter … Continue reading
My Tiny Revolution
This past week has been – uh – interesting. I’m not sleeping particularly well and am nearing the point where I’ll need to withdraw completely from all sources of media. I decided to take some Tiny Steps in a Tiny … Continue reading
Goodnight Doom
In the great oval room There is a telephone With the nuclear neumes And a dead dream of – She-POTUS slaying the Agent of Doom The BA from Wellesley and Yale JD Just couldn’t win over misogyny And a … Continue reading
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Tagged Donald Trump, election 2016, Hillary Clinton, Margaret Wise Brown, politics
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