I am delighted to be guest posting at Zen Family Habits today. Please click over to read my thoughts on how instinct and peer pressure can go to war, and my dedicated efforts to remember what I really believe is vitally important.
Yesterday we visited my grandfather for lunch and a swim. Pops is about to turn 92. He is, truly, a force of nature. His apartment is full of models of both boats and rockets, books, family pictures, and two computers. He was – is! – an engineer and participated in some [...]
This is so, so wonderful. Thank you, Katherine Center. Watch this. Please. It’s worth it. I’m sitting here with tears running down my face.
You have to be brave with your life so that others can be brave with theirs.
The truth is, being a woman is a gift, tenderness is a gift, intimacy is a [...]
I am over at The Kitchen Witch today – TKW is one of my favorite bloggers and it’s a true honor to inhabit her space.
Please go read my post about my mother, abundance, and love – and check out TKW! You won’t be sorry.
Lots of outside skating because the weather is cold. Lots of pink cheeks and runny noises clomping into the clubhouse on their skates in search of chocolate chip cookies.
Whit is the star of the week and I am irrationally proud that I was able to download the LEGO font and use it for his name [...]
Hilary and me with each of our first-born children, spring 2006.
This is not my first love letter to Hilary, nor will it be my last. Hils has been on my mind this week, as she celebrates her fifth anniversary and as I reflect on even-year Thanksgivings in Marion with our entire family. My [...]
Sea of Clouds
The time has come to brave the sea of clouds,To bear away though aching young and hardly made,Rolled down in dark and brooding seas.
Soon gone from sight, our faces lost in waves,Our cries no longer heard,We finally slip into a wind-blurred far away.
Till we are gone – a small and slanted lineTo bravely [...]
Maureen Dowd’s editorial, “Blue is the New Black,” is just the last in a series of articles I’ve read recently about declining female happiness. I find the topic depressing, of course, but I think it’s right on. Dowd’s final assertion that our plethora of choices may be responsible for our malaise is both [...]
And that’s how Whit got to school. I didn’t quite understand the jocular smiles I was getting from other parents this morning until I walked into the classroom and his teacher exclaimed, “It’s picture day!”
Oh.
Right.
Grace was similarly “au naturel” this morning and both were wearing tee shirts (and I know for a fact that [...]
Oh, this Anna Quindlen essay gets better every single time I read it. Today I was crying by paragraph two and feel deeply reassured about both my rejection of parenting “rules” and my (let’s face it, entirely baseless) profound trust in my own instincts. It’s worth the re-read. It really is.
If [...]
