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Choice
Let me start by saying that I support a person’s right to choose to do what they wish with their own body. Period. I know that unless I support people’s right to have choice, that I can’t expect my own...
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Starting a new chapter
I sort of abandoned this blog for a good long while. I just didn’t feel like I had anything to say, and then I didn’t feel like saying it in public. I was in a groove. Work and homeschooling and...
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Mindfulness and the Mama
Seems like the new struggle for moms, replacing the Leave It To Beaver dreams, is the internet. Its easy to get lost online. Easy to plug in, and zone out. Internet has replaced the trashy novel or...
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Simplicity: Optional
I am digging this new blogging space. I’ve been blogging a long time. The first post on this blog is from 2004. This current iteration includes a cooking blog, a pregnancy blog, a family blog, a...
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Nothing to say?
I keep feeling like I have something to say. Something topical perhaps? About politics or the storm disaster on the East Coast. Or maybe something personal? About my family, or mothering. Then I...
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November 1st
For the past few years, the 1st of November has marked the beginning of NaNoWriMo for me. Since 2007 I have attempted to get out 50,000 words of fictional genius. Or at least a story with a beginning,...
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Knowing when to go
I never know when the natural end of things arrives. I am the person who pauses too long before saying good-bye, who sticks around to the bitter end of a party. I try to hold on to failing friendships...
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Round and round again
When you have been writing on a blog, even one that sometimes has really short and silly posts about knitting washcloths, since 2004, topics come back around. You start writing and realize something...
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Anti-Social Media
I’ve been dipping my toes back in the social media pond. And I’m finding that its time to get out again. The sense of dread and overwhelm creeps in slowly at first. Then it starts to feel like the...
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Crystal
Life gets busy. And fast. There are grocery trips and errands, cars to register, camps and classes, housework, schoolwork, playdates. Things slide into one another. Breakfast becomes playtime becomes...
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