roll your children in dirt
How was your Easter? (insert Dora the Explorer-like pause for answer) And your fridge? We took a recent family pool on the number of jars in our fridge. This being strictly mason jars with some manner...
View ArticleGiveaway: Use your words – a writing guide for mothers
When I had a baby and toddler—a baby who wanted nothing more than to squirm back into my soundproof uterus and a toddler who wanted nothing more than to live on a chugging, clanging steam train—I...
View Articlethis magical bowl
6:45 am Col: (climbing in bed) Mama, come see my new convention! Me: Hmmmnzz. Col: No, no. My con….traption. Rose: (whispering): Remember about the shoes? Col: No, my in…vention! Rose: Your fancy ones?...
View Articlefind something you’re passionate about (giveaway)
It’s transition time in the garden. All the players are backstage sorting it out. The tomatoes are tired of being smothered every night by scrappy, paint-stained blankets. They’re tired of their own...
View Articlehappenings
Greetings from a warm, loud and lovely place where the Daddy drags a ladder out onto the front porch every morning (before coffee!) to view, through spotting scope, elk cavorting around his hunting...
View ArticleLessons in Love, Life and Motherhood (a giveaway)
Thank you everyone who participated in raising money for the March of Dimes. (Especial thanks to the perennial lurkers who revealed themselves. That wasn’t too scary was it? I always love hearing from...
View Articlecatching the tail
Charlie’s Angels? First, you guys are the nicest people ever and I appreciate you reaching out through your computer screen to grab my hand and squeeze it. I felt that. Second, on wanting: I want a lot...
View Articlewriting secrets and Sponsor: Amy Bogard (and giveaway)
Sketch by Amy Bogard When I tell my writing students that there are 2 major components to writing well, they wait expectantly for me to part the Red Sea of Writing so they can sashay in before it...
View ArticleGiveaway and review: Ready for Air, and more!
Welcome to my new series on What Makes Memoir Outstanding! But first: yesterday Dan rushed, on his lunch break, to pick up Rose from shared school, who’d been crying and sad and missing me, so she...
View Articleseeking: external uterus
If Col is not sick and Rose is not bereft, I have approximately 2 solid days/week to put towards work. Today, Rose is bereft. Actually, she’s bopping around in purple velvet—scratch that, now she’s in...
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