Blog Detail
Cheerio Road
http://www.mommazen.blogspot.com/
The blog of author Karen Maezen Miller. An honest and irreverent guide to the spiritual truths in everyday parenting.
- Added on: May 7th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Karen Miller
- Listed in: Buddhism Mom & Family
- Tags: happiness Spirituality zen wisdom dharma parenthood
Recent Posts
You are kind
Christine Mason Miller (Swirly Girl) sent me a surprise package with this deck of inspiration cards. They are exactly what I needed, and I put them in a bowl on the kitchen table where I will choose one each day to forgive myself for the day before.L...
Stacking up: a taste of my laundry
I started at 8 a.m. this morning and finished the last load at 5 p.m. Today was laundry day; everyday could be laundry day. And at this dark hour, on this late day of this long year, some things are done but other things are not.The holiday greeting...
What looks like Christmas
Purchased the Wii she put #1 on her wish list for the last three years now that it has fallen to #2 behind hamster, the kind of retro hamster that – like the two fish, turtle and dog – requires someone's mother to clean and feed it.Encouraged her...
A late entry in the truth category
When you're as easily teased by Buddhist discourse as I am, you can see the same arguments over and over. Among the refrains I keep hearing are the ones I call The Biggest Lies in Buddhism.I'm not a Buddha. You most certainly are; you may not yet rea...
How to unwrap your life
I speed-read a short story collection last week, Ishiguro's Nocturnes, which I cannot recommend. Despite that, one story in the book stuck. It was about the relationship between a cellist and his musical mentor, a woman who described herself as a vir...
Hanging up my stocking
It was the first time we'd ever ended up at a restaurant solely on the basis of a Google search, and we were the only diners on a Saturday night.Nirvana, the sign outside said.Customers! the woman in the sari called to her staff as we stepped inside....
