Image credit: Photo by KimmiK on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons I was reading a guest column in the New York Times blog Motherlode today about the ways in which we spend our time as mothers. It included a claim that "the average mom who is not in the workforce and whose youngest kid is [...]
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The Man in the Mirror
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 really compete [...]
My Word for 2009
Image of the Eagle Nebula from the Hubble Space Telescope At the end of last year, I decided I was done with New Year's resolutions. Instead, I picked an intention word for the year: someplace for me to set my focus. My word for 2008 was Happy. And I have to say, that worked out [...]
Random Thoughts
Tonight I am thinking of... My friend, Ellen, whom I thought of on her birthday but neglected to call or e-mail. Um, happy belated birthday on my blog, if you are reading. (How lame is that?) I thought of her tonight because I was eating cookie dough ice cream straight from the carton. Back in [...]
Cycles
My husband arrived home this week, carrying his father's ashes. They are sitting now in a plain brown cardboard package on a shelf in our living room, unobtrusive and mysterious. As I held the box in my hands today, I found it was heavier than it looked, and yet too light to have once been [...]
Solo Parenting Again
Mark is out of town again, paying his last respects to his father, whom we lost three days ago to lung cancer. Unfortunately, the kids and I are not able to make the trip with him. As much as I want to be there with him, supporting him through my physical as well as my [...]
Mark’s Dad Passed Away Today
We lost Mark's dad today to lung cancer, just five weeks after we learned of the diagnosis. I don't believe in an afterlife. I don't know that he's in a better place now. I do know that he's no longer in pain: not in the physical pain that ended his life, nor in the mental [...]
Holding My Breath…
Each day is moving forward. I am caught up in a flurry of motherly activity: getting the kids off to school, cleaning the house while they're gone, blogging (hm...), picking them up from school again, feeding them, bathing them, telling them to put their pants back on and wash their hands and sit down and [...]
My Husband is Back (and So Am I)
Mark returned yesterday from his trip to visit his father. We are both exhausted in our own ways, but both glad that he was able to go back and spend the time. I am going to take a quick nap now, while the kids are in school. Dishes shall remain undone. Toys shall remain on [...]
Hiatus?
I have a thousand thoughts to share but hardly a moment to sit and write. My husband received news that his father, who is dying of lung cancer, has been hospitalized again with breathing difficulties and a possible infection. He decided to book a last minute ticket to fly out for a visit, so I [...]
