Things were different when I was 25. I was in law school at Columbia. I was there not because I was particularly interested in the law per se, or practicing law one day, but because I loved school and felt…
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{Her first time in undies.}
I remember potty-training Big Girl. It was a process. It was a pain. We began before she was 2, introducing plastic potty paraphernalia around our home, placing her tiny diaper-less bottom on it from time…
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I decided that there is a priceless Mother’s Day gift all of us moms can give to ourselves. Curious? Then click over and read my latest piece on the Huffington Post. And feel free to share it, like it, or…
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{My babes. Summer 2012.}
We humans are wired, it seems, to label. We like boxes. Species. Types. They make us feel safe, organized, in control. But the thing is, there are some things that defy categorization, diagramming. Big, important things…
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I’ve been thinking a lot about parenthood recently. Which makes sense because I have three small girls and parenthood is, at the moment, the lens through which I view the world. Also, I know so many people who are trying…
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Big Girl is off from school today, so it will be a jam-packed day of little girl adventures, but I wanted to come here and take a few minutes and tell you about this day so far. Because it has…
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On Saturday, Husband and I took the girls for lunch at our fave kid-friendly restaurant Ditch Plains and then we wandered home. The big girls begged to “just look” in the toy store and when I remembered that we had…
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“{A mother} discovers with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.”
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Are you or were you friends with your…
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How close are you to finishing your book?
I’ve been getting this question a lot lately. And it makes sense. It makes sense because I’ve been working on this novel for years now and because I announced recently that I…
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Earlier this week, I wrote a post. It was kind of a surrender, this is life, so be it, kind of post about how some days are hard, gray, tricky, iffy beasts. And they are. And I’m happy I wrote…
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