So for the past few days I’ve been feeling vaguely ill in the mornings and ultimately decided it was somehow linked to the coffee I was drinking. Perhaps it was too strong, or I’d just started drinking too much. That was quite possible, as my regular daily cup has certainly multiplied over the course of [...]

I get out rarely enough that when I do have plans I start counting down the hours pretty early on. I’m going to a movie tonight with a friend (it starts in just 4 hours, 20 minutes, btw), and am so excited. We’re seeing Julie and Julia. Cooking? Blogging? Meryl? How can it be wrong? [...]

Of Sam’s small repertoire of films he’s allowed to watch, there are two that stand out for me. Both of them are created by Hayao Miyazaki, one of my husband’s all-time favorite writer/director/artists. Of Miyazaki’s vast collection, two are particularly appropriate and wonderful for younger children, and it is these two movies that were the [...]

Something about waking up the morning after a rain makes me think, “We need to go throw rocks in the creek!” So that’s what we did yesterday, after making sure the carrots had survived our most recent storm. Robby kept talking about the “Big WaWa!”  We found an orange slug on a rock and [...]

Have you ever felt resentful of another adult directing or reprimanding your child? How can you say “no,” right? It’s very uncomfortable for us mothers, I think, for a whole host of reasons.
I’m nearly finished with Buddhism For Mothers, which I previously wrote about here, and I came across a passage that really made me [...]

Hey ya’ll. Thanks so much for your well-wishes. I’m doing pretty well. The beginning was a bit rough. I’m not a big fan of vomiting, but vomiting (I think because of the anesthesia, or perhaps the pain killers that I immediately stopped taking) can actually be worse than the horror it already is when coupled [...]

Something just happened that made me feel like I needed to drop what I was doing and write this post IMMEDIATELY. See, I’ve been doing an awful lot of reading lately, and one common theme I’ve noticed in a few books has to do with our “inner voice” - you know, the one you talk [...]