Category: Parenting
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An Ode to Siri, My Trusted Co-Parent
The other day, I felt like I might have landed on a brilliant invention. An app you can use to have those difficult conversations with your child. Instead of having conversations about drugs, sex, and Donald Trump with your kids, why not just create an app to whom you can delegate that responsibility. I mean, there…
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School Meetings and My Pagan Daughter
The long awaited meeting finally occurred and I hope some forward movement will happen regarding my son’s school situation. I went into the meeting in a state of hyper vigilance. I probably could have felt a speck of dust land on me, but I wasn’t nervous. My son’s teacher had already made cultural and economic…
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Staying “parcours” With My Fitness Goals
It has been several months since I blogged – back when we were in the throes of camping adventures and expenses. Since then, my brain has been cluttered with experiences, organized into clip art-like images and quips as the days fly by. My son loves first grade and his new school. Every day he leaps out…
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Chin Hairs, Chronic Pain, Stuffy Noses and Memory Loss, No Problem
I’ve been on this serious regimen of health improvement over the past month, ever since the visit to my doctor. At the prompting of some readers and friends, I opted to give a chiropractor a go. If you have mentioned to me over the past month that I need to try this, nice work, you…
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Annoying the world. One person at a time.
Today I met my neighbor for the third time in three years. I’m not sure why I don’t see her more often. After our brief reunification, I decided that she really needs to move into my head. She came over wanting to see how my security doors were installed. “Now this doesn’t make much sense.…
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Whippets and Subarus: The Challenges of Fragility
This week was an intense week for every thing with moving parts in our family. It started with our dog, Smoke. Smoke is a Whippet. This makes her possibly the most nervous and fragile being I have ever come across. I mean, it couldn’t be that she lives in a home with two rambunctious tiny…
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a mindful life
The other night, after returning home from a family visit which left my kids knocked out in the car, I seized the opportunity to watch a Redbox movie that was already a night late. After transferring the tiny trolls to my bed, fully clothed and peacefully sleeping, I turned on The Intern, which featured Robert DeNiro and…
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Waiting to Evolve…
That’s a passive title, isn’t it? Written by an author who is waiting for life to happen to her, rather than making life happen. It’s the place I tend to go to when life feels overwhelming. A life-sized Eeyore. It seems that it has been ages since I last wrote a blog. Writing usually brings…
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Let Me Repeat Your Order to See if I Got This Right…You’d Like an Aerospace Engineer Who Loves Cricket and Spicy Food and Has a Good Health History…
It has been two weeks and I’m trying to stay on a regular schedule of documenting life as it goes with my two minions. Well, unfortunately, they are far from minions. They are usually not that cute, they rarely listen to what I have to say, and I can always understand what they say back…
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Yeah…I am that parent. And my plan failed.
Recall my earlier post about those loser parents at the elementary schools I visited in December who were like “my kid is so cool and smart, can your school cut it?” Yeah, I put in for the lottery to get my son into one of those schools. And my plan failed. My rejection letter arrived…
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