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boxes…
April 23, 2013
Everything is transition these days. We’re in a new house this week and I am, once again, surrounded by boxes. It makes me crazy, being surrounded by boxes. I’ve done this moving houses thing now more times than I’d like to remember and there are pieces of it at the start of the process that […]
and so this is how my new year starts…
January 6, 2013
I am writing this while my groceries languish on the counter, frozen foods melting, snacks being ravaged by children, milk sweating profusely. I am in a fight with my daily writing habits. I keep telling them I am tired, that I am just getting over being sick, being on vacation. I tell them that I […]
bracing for the light…
October 10, 2012
It has been a strange couple of weeks which finally culminated in a short walk to our neighborhood grade school to enroll my 10 year old son, Henry. It is his first time entering a “real school.” By way of back story I’ll tell you that I have been homeschooling my kids since my oldest […]
parenting practice…
August 27, 2012
As I rambled on about this new idea I have for a book my daughter nodded absently. I tried to catch her attention with some buzz words and interesting angles. She looked up from her phone and smiled. “That sounds great, Mom” she responded and then she was gone again. I recognize that look. I […]
letting go…
June 20, 2012
The boys are headed to summer camp today. It’s an hour and a half away, sleepover for three nights, mosquitos, s’mores, mud, poison ivy- everything a boy could want. If you’ve never packed for three boys under 12 in anticipation for overnight stays somewhere outside […]
metaphor
from the Latin. metaphora,
from Gk. metaphora "a transfer," especially of the sense of one word to a different word,
lit. "a carrying over," from metapherein "transfer, carry over," from meta- "over, across" (see meta-) + pherein "to carry, bear" (see infer).
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Mother’s Day
May 9, 2013
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REPOST: This essay was originally posted May, 2010. Since that time, I’ve found my perceptions of Mother’s Day have shaped to reflect the true spirit of the day. I read this one myself from time to time to remind me of the passion and the courage that originally fueled the real version of “Mother’s Day.” […]