I was given an unexpected gift. I was able to turn back the clock, on a snowy day in January. I was able to live an experience that I’ve regretted missing the first time, and thought was gone forever. A writer can rewrite chapters, but who has that luxury in life? I often feel a [...]
Archive for the ‘Motherhood’ Category
the Gift
Posted in Motherhood, seasons, Writing, tagged gift, Jane Koenen Bretl, motherhood, snow days, snowglobe, trains, Writing on January 24, 2011 | 14 Comments »
those Fabulous Bicker Boys
Posted in get along like cats and dogs, Motherhood, tagged Fabulous Bicker Boys, Fabulous Bicker Brothers, Nerf guns on August 30, 2010 | 6 Comments »
It’s quiet around here… maybe a little too quiet. The cats have gradually come out of hiding, casting furtive glances around the room, listening carefully for the boys that had just recently been jumping out of the woodwork with Nerf “guns”. I was repeatedly assured that no one was aiming at the cats, however I [...]
the home stretch
Posted in Motherhood, tagged allowance, back-to-school, chores, Jane Koenen Bretl, life lessons, school shoes on August 23, 2010 | 6 Comments »
… it’s the final kick, digging deep, rounding the bases and heading for home alone. The school supplies are packed, the backpacks bulging with loose-leaf paper and expectations. The boys have new clothes, new shoes (cue foreshadowing music here) and shaggy haircuts, but two out of three ain’t bad. This has been the happiest summer [...]
reality check on the prairie
Posted in Motherhood, something important, I'm sure, tagged Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House on the Prairie on August 17, 2010 | 8 Comments »
I am ready to let go of the dream that either of my children will ever read the complete boxed set of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House on the Prairie — yes, I mean the collection that I purchased before they were born and had planned to read aloud to them while they played quietly [...]
letters to camp
Posted in Motherhood, seasons, tagged homesickness, motherhood, summer camp on August 15, 2010 | 6 Comments »
This summer, The Little One went to his first-ever overnight camp, five nights in a cabin in the woods. Swimming, archery, campfires, horseback riding, night hikes with the fireflies — this was the real deal, just as I always imagined camp would look like, based on the book settings and movie locations and my imagination. [...]
summer forecasts
Posted in Motherhood, seasons, tagged summer on August 2, 2010 | 18 Comments »
“Hello friends,” says a wee voice from somewhere off the face of the earth. ~ Here I am, alive and kicking, sweating and bitching about the heat, and gratefully enjoying this summer with my boys more than any other summer season on record. There have been notable highs, seasonable lows, with scattered life lessons and [...]
Proudest Moments
Posted in Motherhood, Writing, tagged anthology, book signing, CBS Sunday Morning, Christina Katz, Erma Bombeck Writers Workshop, Jane Friedman, radio interview, The Prosperous Writer, The Ultimate Mom, There Are No Rules, Writer's Digest on May 14, 2010 | 7 Comments »
One person’s humor can be another person’s yawn. One person’s proud can be someone else’s embarrassment. On either side of the fence, I find that most things in life are not as they appear on the surface, because there exists the chapters before and the chapters not yet written, and all we see is a [...]
Life is funny, or why I started screaming at the TV
Posted in Motherhood, Writing, tagged CBS Sunday Morning, Erma Bombeck, Erma Bombeck Writers Workshop, Lost in Suburbia, Mother's Day, motherhood, Rebel Without a Minivan, Tracy Beckerman on May 10, 2010 | 14 Comments »
Have I mentioned before that life is funny? It bears mentioning again, because it is the only explanation I have for why my Mother’s Day included blood-curdling screams. Like most of my adventures, this one started out innocently enough. As I have mentioned 53 times already, I attended a writing conference a few weeks ago. [...]
Why Erma?
Posted in Motherhood, Writing, tagged bookmobile, Darrelyn Saloom, Erma Bombeck, Erma Bombect Writing Workshop on April 20, 2010 | 17 Comments »
“Why Erma?” someone asked. Erma Bombeck was the first humor writer that I ever read. As a kid, when I had exhausted the stack of books from the summer bookmobile, I would browse through the house for reading material. There on the living room bookshelf, near the Reader’s Digest Condensed versions and the set of [...]
back on the horse
Posted in Foodies, Motherhood, tagged Italy, new start, parenting, pork belly tacos, rigatoni con la pajata, roman cuisine, Rome, umbilical cord on March 2, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Well, hello there. I am back from our trip to Rome. It was a fascinating trip, full of surprises and lots of fabulous food and one late hiccup in the plan. We had never been away from the kids for a full week, and to land 5000 miles away pushed me out to the edge [...]
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