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Mia
It’s difficult to tell the story of Mia without telling the story of us. Her years marked so many of our big moments, which, I guess, any 14-year chunk of time will do. Mia came into our lives in...
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A couple years ago, as I was loading Sophie into the van after a morning of half-day kindergarten, two men approached me. Their car had run out of gas on 27 and they wondered if I would give them a...
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On the Brink of the School-aged Years
Two things happened yesterday that helped clarify an uneasiness I’ve felt all summer. • I took the kids to the zoo with only a small backpack filled with three water bottles and a few essentials....
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On the Strange Delight of a Rainbow Chalk Drawing
I recently bought sidewalk chalk and Sophie recently drew a rainbow, highly pigmented (pink, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink) with white puffy clouds on each end, which is not a true...
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To all the mamas and papas of little ones:
Someday you will drop your boys off at the ball field for practice. And your daughter will get on her bike and ride the surrounding quarter-mile paved loop over and over. And you might walk the same...
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The Love in Trying
It’s difficult to write about, not even parenting, but being when your children are older, which is largely why this space now sits quietly stagnant for so long. Can vagueness and truthfulness...
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Baby B
When you have twins, the first baby to come out is Baby A or, in our family, Owen. The second baby to come out is Baby B—James. At 4 lbs., 15 oz., Owen was almost twice the size of James at birth....
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Sweet Old World
(There are links throughout, a purple that looks like green (apologies). These are just a few of the songs Marty loved.) I’m having a tough day. In the early years, my father-in-law Marty was often...
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Mud at Strouds Run
Poster by Mishka Westell. A couple weeks ago my sister and I saw Patty Griffin perform at Stuart’s Opera House in Nelsonville, Ohio. We both have long loved Patty Griffin and the ticket was my early...
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When writing about motherhood some of the key players always, eventually — rightfully — insist on privacy. Sometimes I whisper their ages in surprise — 12, 10, 10. How did we get here and how did it...
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