This Writer’s Life
Where other people have music or art or coding or cooking, I have words and stories and writing. It’s how I’ve always been. Nose buried in a book, burning through pages in a journal, itching to read at...
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What Was Bedtime Like Growing Up?
Every Saturday in 2013 I’ll be sharing a post for the Mom Before Mom project. The goal is to tell the stories of life before motherhood, the stories which root the woman in every mother. So much of...
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What Were Sick Days Like As A Kid
Every Saturday Once a week in 2013 I’ll be sharing a post for the Mom Before Mom project. The goal is to tell the stories of life before motherhood, the stories which root the woman in every mother. So...
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Did You Have A Childhood Pet?
Every Saturday in 2013 I’ll be sharing a post for the Mom Before Mom project. The goal is to tell the stories of life before motherhood, the stories which root the woman in every mother. So much of...
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Thoughts on a Latina Author’s Journey
Today I am humbled to have Latina children’s book author Alma Flor Ada guest posting here as part of the Día de los Niños, Día de los Libros Blog Hop. Before having children, her name was foreign to...
View ArticleSo We Beat On
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald I fell in love with The Great Gatsby in high school. It swept me up and away. I read the last...
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Breakfast & Birds
As young girl coming of age, I spent hours, sometimes days, writing poetry. I filled journal upon journal, wide-ruled loose leaf page after wide-ruled loose leaf page with the angst, dreams,...
View ArticleWelcome, Scary Mommy Readers!
If you’re arrived here via Scary Mommy today you’ve been kind enough to read my guest post there today on the power of rituals in a family’s life. Thank you, thank you, thank you! I started blogging 6...
View ArticleWelcome NaBloPoMo 2013
1. As Ernest Hemenway said, “There’s nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” Here’s to a month of a month of bloodshed!
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I started blogging in 2007 shortly after my daughter was born. I was brimming with joy and overwhelm as a new mother. I wanted to talk about her all the time and explore this evolution I was undergoing...
View ArticleBe Gentle With Your Middle Schooler
I spent my entire childhood, from kindergarten through eighth grade, with the same group of kids. Once in a blue moon there’d be a new kid, and even less frequently someone would leave the school. For...
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