These three are headed to the lake. And I’m not. How could this have happened? Sports. That’s what happened. Unbelievable. The two older boys have events this weekend. This is one of those Talking Heads moments when you scratch your head and say, “How did I get here?” In all truth, I need the break. [...]
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In exactly 18 minutes, I can fall deeply asleep, wake up completely refreshed, and for a brief couple of seconds, not remember where I am, or even what century this is. My cheeks will feel flushed and drained, as if I have been asleep like a teenager sleeping past noon, blissfully unaware of the dawning [...]
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This spring, the kid’s sports schedule is scary. Jammed. This is our last big splurge of time on organized sports before we hit the lake and do absolutely nothing. Camp fliers for summer programs arrive in backpacks after school. I’ve seen, and tossed out, everything from spending a full week at college pretending to be [...]
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You could carve out some time today to get to the store for the ingredients for these meatballs, make them for dinner, and still have a stash of them in your freezer. On a crazy, harried week night, you could pull out a few meatballs, drop them into some broth, add some noodles and have [...]
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The Wall Street Journal yesterday revealed that as the pill turns 50, almost half of pregnancies in the US are unplanned. This, despite the fact that women can choose from a full range of birth-control options, including pills, patches, rings and IUDS. I might have a solution to our nation’s birth control dilemma: a cheap, [...]
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If I was a medieval alchemist, and you came to me with a bagful of sorrow, I’d fry you leaves of sage. You’d eat. I’d wait for the clearing to come. In that space, sage could do its work and allow your sorrow to transform into something else. Something shinny and new. This is your [...]
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In keeping with the kindergarten tradition of cutting your own hair with scissors, his second stab at taking scissors to his hair comes just in time for his graduation picture. Best Shot Monday.
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I started to enter the times on our family calendar of the three graduations I will attend on June 9th, but I got stuck on the first one – that kindergarten one. He’ll stand at the front of the class, wearing his black cardboard mortarboard, and I’ll remember the intimate lunches we shared of poached [...]
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So, they agreed to let the car go without a person on top. This is exactly why I can’t leave them along long enough to go to the basement to switch and fold a load of laundry.
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