A while back I wrote about friendships — how hard it is to leave them behind when we move and how challenging to keep the friendship alive as the years pass. Shortly after, I saw a tweet from Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project blog, half of all friends are replaced every seven years Really, half [...]
Archive for June, 2009
friends, revisited
Posted in seasons, tagged Ed and Deb Shapiro, friendship, Gretchen Rubin, Huffington Post, The Happiness Project, Zebra Sounds on June 29, 2009 | 6 Comments »
between a rock and a wet place
Posted in Motherhood, Photography on June 28, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Parenting is tricky: teaching them to walk without fear, yet still watch out for that edge.
excuse me, but can you go find my head?
Posted in Motherhood, seasons, tagged conniption, Grinch, holidays on June 22, 2009 | 8 Comments »
December 23rd historically has not been one of my finer days. I have been known to fall apart on December 23rd. It is something about the holly jollidays, the anticipation and preparation and frankly the perfectionist tendency to try to make it a perfect holiday for everyone. Kind souls have been trying to tell me to relax [...]
youthful shenanigans, quantum theory and…socks
Posted in good reads, tagged AskWaitLeap, Brian Reardon, missing socks on June 18, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I like the blog AskWaitLeap where there are always insightful musings, funny anecdotes, occasionally a poignant poem, and stories from her adventurous life. You can’t miss reading about an escapade where she cut off the end of her finger at roughly age ten, and she and her friends sewed it back on themselves and never [...]
I’m yammering elsewhere today
Posted in Writing, tagged Miscellaneous Yammerings, Karen Schindler on June 16, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Come visit Karen Schindler’s new blog Miscellaneous Yammerings where I am the guest on her Ten Questions Tuesday post. Karen just started this blog (and I mean JUST — it is two weeks old) and already she is garnering quite an extensive audience, not to mention the interest of industry professionals. Read through her work [...]
an ode to joy
Posted in Motherhood, tagged Beethoven, joy, Ode To Joy, piano lessons, summer break on June 15, 2009 | 9 Comments »
How many times can you hear Ode To Joy and still have it be an ode to joy? I am in the process of finding the answer to that question… A few years ago, the kids took piano lessons from a wonderful teacher for the school year. After the June piano recital, we decided [...]
where’s the bus?
Posted in Motherhood, seasons, Writing, tagged Christina Katz, Get Known Before the Book Deal, yellow bus on June 13, 2009 | 14 Comments »
Okay, so here’s the deal: that magic big yellow bus stopped coming to my house and now there are extra PEOPLE here. Every day. All day. And every time I sit down at the computer to write something brilliant, someone says “You’re at the computer, AGAIN???” Which makes me feel like I should play a [...]
misnomer-over
Posted in Motherhood, tagged Bill Cosby, parenting, sleepovers on June 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
What smarty-party-pants came up with the idea of a kid sleepover? Someone who was going out of town overnight? In our household, the sleepover is rarely a good idea. We all do best with a good night’s sleep. No one here is a natural early riser. We still enforce a fairly consistent bedtime at their [...]
what a hypothetical ham
Posted in seasons on June 5, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Once upon a time, possibly earlier today, there was a woman who tried on her new swimsuit in (mental) preparation for her first trip to the pool this weekend. Looking over her shoulder into the mirror, a maneuver that is really never a good idea under most circumstances for a woman of her age, she [...]
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