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This is The Voice 22 May 2013 | 09:27 pm
My arms drooped. Watching Monday night’s DVRed Top 10 show of The Voice Tuesday morning, my limbs went full-out spaghetti – just thinking about how much the audience has to applaud during the show. Se...
Four 10 Mar 2013 | 11:50 am
Even before Xander was born, I started doing the math. It is, I suppose, a byproduct of having a child at 40. When he was a newborn, I thought how I’d be 80 when he was the age I was then. Every birth...
Falling in love at Canyons Resort 1 Mar 2013 | 08:38 pm
I miss snow. I know. Easy for me to say, considering I haven’t had to step in a snow drift that went up, over and into my boots since 1996. But. I love it. And I’m sad my kids will never have a snow d...
Killing childhood 8 Feb 2013 | 11:58 am
I am killing my kids’ childhood, one sports practice at a time. At least, that’s what the self-proclaimed “anti soccer moms” would have me believe. They pat themselves on the back because THEIR kids a...
44 31 Dec 2012 | 01:32 pm
Today is my birthday and I should be writing my year in review. I should write about how I looked in the mirror and cried a few days ago because of all the wrinkles and lines around my eyes, the saggi...
We talked 18 Dec 2012 | 02:54 am
This morning I took Sage and Sawyer to school, an hour before their classes began, for a flag ceremony honoring those who lost their lives in Newtown. I have questioned myself since Friday, when I w...
Time marker 13 Dec 2012 | 11:43 am
The birthday of an eldest is always a time marker for the mother, too. The day your life shifted irrevocably in ways you’d never imagined. Nine years ago it happened to me. December 13th. Nine days af...
Disneyland Holidays 7 Dec 2012 | 11:05 am
They started talking about it the moment they hopped into the car. “Xander,” they said, “you’re going to love it.” As soon as we arrived in Disneyland, Sawyer and Sage – each holding one of Xander’s h...
Ugly 2 Nov 2012 | 09:03 am
The diary entry – was it seventh grade? ninth? – included a dictionary definition. Because I wanted to know what, exactly, “ugly scum” meant. That’s what my peers thought of me, a boy told me. And I n...
No More NaNoWriMo 1 Nov 2012 | 08:59 am
NaNoWriMo. National Novel Writing Month. Thirty days to write 50,000 words. Or more. One year ago today, I met some people who would soon occupy my every waking moment. Sometimes my sleeping ones, too...
