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Mommy Had a Tantrum
This is another update on how the New Rules thing at our house is going down (and I do mean down, as into the abyss). It isn’t going well. This morning everyone woke up in a Mood. I wasn’t in a Mood...
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The Risk of Helicopter Parenting
This poem by the Lebanese poet and writer, Kahlil Gibran, has always haunted my parenting: Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come...
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The Steubenville Rape Case: Where The Hell Are The Parents?
Like the rest of the country, I’ve been following the Steubenville rape case, disgusted. Today I saw this headline: Steubenville Rapist to Appeal Because “His Brain Wasn’t Fully Developed Yet.”...
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Thoughts on The Stillpoint of the Turning World
This morning I listened to Terry Gross on NPR interview author Emily Rapp about what it’s like to be the mother of a child who had Tay-Sachs, a genetically-inherited and fatal disease. Emily’s son...
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My Little Sister: The Death of a Child From MLD
My little sister, Gail, died of MLD (infantile-onset metachromatic leukodystrophy) when she was two. I was four, at the time, and my older sister was seven. MLD is a rare, terrible,...
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Snow Day
Woke up to this today: Didn’t expect it. (That’s an upturned chair on the lawn, if you’re wondering.) I got the flu two days ago – horrible – in an instant my health was completely gone. I woke up in...
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I Came Out Of The Closet Too, Sort Of
Yesterday I was on Facebook while listening to NPR’s live coverage of the gay rights rally at the Supreme Court building here in Washington, D.C. I’m sure you know this but just in case you were in a...
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Recipe for Coconut Easter Bunny Tails
Serve them in a basket, or in an egg container filled with Easter grass! An easy-peasy recipe for Springtime treats that’s super easy, yummy too! The hardest part of this recipe is the waiting to lick...
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I’m Featured on Blogher!
My post about my little sister has been syndicated on Blogher! Hello, and for you people out there to whom it applies, happy Good Friday. I know that’s an oxymoron, “happy Good Friday,” but I’m never...
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Adam Lanza’s Mother Should Have Known
I’m being judgmental, but I am a mother trying to find some sort of cause and effect, so please indulge me. After seeing the list of items seized by the police from Nancy Lanza’s home after the...
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I’m Not Sure Who I Am On Facebook
I don’t really know who I am on my Momalog Facebook page. It’s strange. I know who I am on Twitter. On Twitter, I spew my opinions mercilessly and without a second thought – and it’s beyond belief, I...
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Mommy Had a Tantrum
This is another update on how the New Rules thing at our house is going down (and I do mean down, as into the abyss). It isn’t going well. This morning everyone woke up in a Mood. I wasn’t in a Mood...
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“Hold On, I Have To Breathe” – Tom’s Prayer Tree
“Hold on, I have to breathe.” My friend Tom has cancer. Tom is the living embodiment of a Springsteen song: he loves baseball, God, and his family. He even married his high school sweetheart, Heidi....
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One Page At A Time
It’s been a while since I last posted. To be honest I’ve been off the blog for so long that I was afraid what I would see in the comments when I got here. If I take a break from the blog, spammers...
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That Priceless Sorority Sister Email…
Back in college, I avoided sororities and sorority sisters like the plague. And frat boys, too. Something about the whole deal just put me off, start to finish. I was clear I did not want anything to...
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The Crying Indian Commercial
From my “How My Kids Make Me A Better Person” file. This year I had no idea it was Earth Day until Ella came home from school and reminded me that it was. I think I was sitting down to get on my...
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Montessori Changed How I Parent
I was just reading everybody’s status updates on Facebook and was reminded by my friend Sperk* that today is the 60th anniversary of the death of Maria Montessori. As I was reading her status update,...
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A Different Kind of Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day is around the corner. Uh-oh. Probably because I am an ACOA, Mother’s Day is something I have mixed feelings about. The first thing that comes to my mind when I hear the words “Mother’s...
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My Friend Tom
This is an update to the post Hold On, I Have to Breathe that I posted about my old friend from high school, Tom, and his wife Heidi a while back. Tom isn’t doing too well – he is in hospice. Tom and...
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A Family Tree I Didn’t Even Know I Had
I posted this on my Facebook page yesterday, but here it is again because for me, this is big. Ohmygosh! OHMYGOSH! You may know that my parents were immigrants from far-flung countries transplanted to...
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