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BlogHer ’14
I was overwhelmed walking into BlogHer. I was overwhelmed pretty much the entire time I was at BlogHer. I am overwhelmed now, trying to write about BlogHer. Clearly, BlogHer was overwhelming. I’ve...
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6:12am
Feet snug in my turquoise slippers, arms warm in my faded blue robe, I stand with the heavy hose clutched in my hand. The ever-present drone of the nearby freeway hums with quiet ferocity. It’s...
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A Letter to My Son
My Dear, Sweet Mateo, You may not know your name is Mateo. We never call you that. We rarely even call you Teo. Mostly we just call you Fry. I hope that isn’t something you recount on a therapist’s...
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Motherhood Unpublished
In the age of Facebook, Pinterest and über-popular lifestyle blogs, one might conclude that motherhood is all about smiling children on swings, perfectly executed first birthdays and immaculate...
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Clarifying the Outline
My “business” cards came for the BlogHer conference next weekend. I felt immense relief when I ordered them because it was the ONE THING I had to DO in the weeks before the big event. Now that they are...
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Mornings
I love mornings. Well, not always, but this summer I do. I cherish the mornings. I used to love summer because I got to sleep in, lounge around in bed, and shuffle around in my pajamas until noon. Now...
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This Little Light of Mine
In two weeks I will be attending my first BlogHer conference. I am feeling quite ambivalent about it. In the past a good number of my “blogging buddies” attended BlogHer and I was desperate to join...
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North Star
Wow, 16 months. For 16 months I’ve been absent from this space. For two years I’ve been paying a monthly fee to host this site and I’ve added nothing, not one word. I’m not sure quite what happened. I...
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Five Things To Know About Secondary Infertility
We are grateful Those of us who suffer from secondary infertility, we know how much we have. We know how lucky we are to parent the child(ren) we have. We are incredibly grateful for the gifts in our...
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Capturing a Moment vs. Living In It
If a moments is not remembered, did it happen at all? One of my first memories is of my last pacifier falling, falling into the high grass below the back porch of a family friend. My chubby two year...
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Why Choose a Bilingual Preschool?
Parents have many reasons for wanting their kids to learn another language. For some it’s the desire to preserve a cultural identity; they speak the language and want to pass their cultural heritage...
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Remembering
Today I remember. I remember… …because if I don’t, know one else will. …because I still miss you, even though I never met you. …because just the thought of losing you brings tears to my eyes, even...
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Why Parenting Makes Us Unhappy
I’m reading a book right now called Why Have Kids? You might wonder why I, someone who already has one child and very much hopes to have another, would read such a thing, and honestly I’m not sure...
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Packing
Packing. It really, really sucks. It sucks for weekend jaunts and it sucks for summer tours of Europe and it sucks before moving into college dorm rooms and it royally sucks after eight years in an...
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Parenting other people’s kids
Ah the playground. A place where parents of all different beliefs and discipline styles (plus their children) are thrown together and forced to share equipment that none of them can lay claim too....
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Something CAN Be Done
It’s a familiar cycle. A horrible massacre occurs somewhere in the United States. Dozens of innocents are killed for no apparent reason. The gunman is declared insane, how could anyone who does...
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Knightfall
Photos of the trade paperback, Batman Knightfall: Broken Bat, published by DC Comics This morning I woke up and my partner was already awake. He would be going to work early: attorneys at non-profit...
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Counting Chickens
Have you ever noticed how we announce that which is culturally expected by the prodding questions that we determine aren’t prodding at all? Like, are there wedding bells in your future? Don’t you plan...
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