Tag Archives: children
Captain Underpants
As I type, I’m envisioning the disjointed discussion likely taking place in my brood’s fifth-grade classroom right about now, spawned, of course, by the events surrounding Saturday’s cleaning fest at our home. Like most frenzied attempts to rid my world … Continue reading
The Value of Permanence
Lots of things in this world are disturbing to me. Greed, poverty and heinous crime. The demise of the planet and the pervasiveness of mediocrity. Mismatched socks and the death of Gilligan’s Island. Oddly enough, I include technology on that … Continue reading
Filed under Love and Other Drugs, Welcome to My Disordered World
Hands Upon My Heart
When I was nine or ten, I remember well my enthrallment with my mother’s hands. They were delicate and slender, sweetly scented and rose petal-soft—so completely unlike my own nicked and scraped, callused and chafed boy-like hands that were better … Continue reading
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Filed under Love and Loss
2012: The Year of the Dragon
According to the Chinese zodiac, 2012 is the year of the dragon. I know this to be true not only because I googled the bejesus out of it, but because my brood became riddled with delirium upon learning they had … Continue reading
Filed under Home is Where the Weirdness Lives, Lizard Lips
A Kinder, Gentler Sort of Holiday Madness
It’s the eleventh day of Christmas and finally it’s safe to venture beyond one’s home out into the Land of Wares. At least it would seem so. The tired, the poor and the frenzied masses have all gone home, lugging … Continue reading
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Filed under Holiday Hokum, Home for Wayward Toys, The Natives are Decidedly Restless
A Decade of Enlightenment: Ten Things Parenthood Has Taught Me
I’ve been a parent for some 8,286 days. A stunningly imperfect parent, I hasten to add. During that period of time I learned more about sleep deprivation, sibling rivalry and teen angst than I previously considered humanly possible. However, the … Continue reading
Jingle All the Way
It’s possible that I might be slightly smitten with jingle bells—more specifically, with the completely delicious and decidedly hypnotic sound they emit. A feast for the ears. A balm for the soul. A window into the past for people like … Continue reading
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Filed under "N" is for Nostalgia, Holiday Hokum
Countdown to Christmas
It was painful to stand there and simply watch. To idly witness, that is, a little boy, no more than three, seized by a desperate longing to ride on the horse-drawn wagon that had circled the park more times than … Continue reading
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Filed under Growing Pains, Holiday Hokum
Dear Santa
Dear Santa, Please believe me, oh great giver-of-gifts, I know you love my children dearly and that you’d do almost anything to make them happy this Christmas. You’re a kind and generous soul. And make no mistake about it; I’ve … Continue reading
Filed under Holiday Hokum, The Natives are Decidedly Restless
