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"I don't want to get up and I don't want to go to school!" my daughter Janie yelled when she heard me chime "Time to get up!" this morning. ("Well, maybe tonight you will go to sleep on time so you won't be tired tomorrow," I [...]
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I strut down the hall,
pull a mint green plastic comb
from my jeans pocket.
Comb whips through hair and...
I fail (completely!) to look
like Farrah Fawcett.
More Haiku Friday haikus can be found at A Mommy Story.
I roll my eyes as a cluster of neon clad girls buzz, "The way the sidewalk lights up as he walks is so cool! I love that song." Michael Jackson and that stupid Billie Jean video. Cool? Whatever. He's so overrated. I mean, if you wanted to talk about enduring cool, who could [...]
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I've got plans for tomorrow that are going to keep me away from the computer, and I knew I wanted to squeeze in one last blog post today. So first thing in the morning I began the day right: by panicking because I wasn't sure what [...]
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Many years ago, before we had children, my husband bought me a small fish tank for my birthday. At the time, I wanted a car. I didn't really think he could buy a car, but I was relying on a very iffy public transit system [...]
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We have a friend who is pregnant right now, and this has got my son Austen thinking about life, although oddly enough, not how life begins, but rather how it ends. He hasn't really expressed much curiosity at all about how life starts; he [...]
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When I was about eight or nine, I took my beloved uncle's cigarettes away and started flushing them down the toilet. I didn't want him to die prematurely (as he did anyway). Even as a child, I was sure that if I showed him how [...]
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Death is on my mind for obvious reasons lately: the loss of first one friend and then another, both younger than 45 and both within days of each other. And I've noticed, in this thinking about death vein, that my friends Mama, MomVee and storyteller have all posted [...]
