STEM skills! No, STEAM skills! Socialization. Sight words memorized by age 3. Critical thinking. Poetry recitation, foreign language immersion and – hey, with all that free time, you should absolutely…
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Ideals + Musings
Good Days
the office, and I write this: I have been evaluating my good days all wrong. Nightly, I write a simple daily recap in my journal. It is a going-on-three-year tradition,…
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Self Reflection + Growth
For Your Ears
fellow mothers. Start with: Discussion Without Offense Invisibilia Invisibilia blends everyday stories with exploratory research in the fields of psychology, habits and the deeply-entrenched roots of our most human behaviors….
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Family + Kids
Chasing Cars
adventure is just beyond the horizon. Disciplining too little seems to offer false realities, disciplining too much seems to quench the spirit. So most of the time, I smile and…
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Self Reflection + Growth
The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
It began with the car accident. The parked car in the street, the U-haul ahead, a pick-up truck peeling out of his driveway with less-than-desirable visibility. I swerve, thinking of…
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myKind
autohairography: chapter six.
Below is a snippet of my hope-to-be-published memoir, Autohairography. If you know of a publisher that’s nice and likes quirky girls, please email me! [image credit: anna liisa liiver] 1994-1995….
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Miscellaneous
feel good doing good.
email from Pat over at blankanvas. “ I’m trying to encourage more of us selfish bastards to do some good everyday. Why? Because we can.” AMEN! Get your checklist here….
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Family + Kids
So Good
good child. I’ve been closing my eyes to my Twitter stream. I’ve been closing my eyes to my desperate temptation to define everything, to fix everything. I have been closing…