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Parenting posts that include the touching, the embarrassing, the annoying, the typical, the atypical, the whatever. You just have to be a parent to get these.

What day is it?  It’s Wednesday! Wednesdays are for empathy and wonder!  I am honored (she would say honoured) to feature another excellent writer in the Our Land Series which began here because you guys were so supportive and wonderful. I’ve recently gotten to know Lizzi (aka The Considerer at Considerings) and am so very glad for it. She’s […]

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Yesterday, I wrote a letter to my son.  Not to him now, but to him as an old man.  Reading it reminds me to be thankful for: The time that I do have.  It is limited, but it is here.  I’m thankful for the minutes that I have and am committed to making each one […]

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There are a lot of people that I’d like to have dinner with.  They include family, friends, and many of you. Tina Fey, who would make me laugh endlessly, especially if she did dummy Sarah Palin for me.  Ellen.  Jack. Sir Anthony.  Steve Jobs. Martin Luther King. But there is one person that I want […]

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Man, the 70’s were like a Petri dish of bad taste.  Seriously, avocado and marigold yellow were the only acceptable modern color choices for the gigantic appliances that dominated an already vomit-ugly kitchen?  What’s up with that?  Plaid high-water pants were in, as were ugly shoes and Winnie-the-Pooh raincoats.  Well, maybe they weren’t actually “in” […]

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It’s so easy to feel overwhelmed, overtired, overextended and over it.  And that’s why it’s extra important to take a moment and remember what we’re thankful for each week.  Here’s a quick glimpse into the things – both small and big – that I feel particularly thankful for right this minute. My husband.  Happy Father’s […]

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The hardest part of my day is the three hours when Tucker should be napping but isn’t.  He’s cranky. I’m cranky.  I would much rather be working sleeping fucking off online connecting with you lovely people than trying to entertain an overtired, over-stimulated three-year-old boy. Like a good friend said to me, when you’re on […]

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