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Tough love?
Earlier this week there was a headline floating around the internet about how the Gosselin children were "ruining" Christmas for their classmates by telling them that Santa isn't real. Apparently the older Gosselin kids no longer believe in Santa and...
Ripples
Now that most of my holiday shopping is out of the way, and the teachers' gifts have been delivered, and the holiday cards ordered, and the first batches of cookies baked, I can slowly but surely turn my attention to our holiday trip home. One week f...
The List
My husband is an habitual list maker, and I love him for it, I really do. He makes long detailed lists of the pros and cons of things, of to-do projects around the house, of to-do projects already completed, and of various statistics involving his fa...
Mr. B.
Not long after we had first moved into our current neighborhood, an older black man came knocking at our door. He was the neighborhood "handyman", as he described himself. He's been doing work in the neighborhood for 40 years--not for everyone, mind ...
One moment
When you're a parent, you get lots of advice thrown your way--starting from before you even give birth. Some of the advice you nod at and toss away, either because you've heard it before, or because it doesn't apply to you personally, or because it j...
The popularity factor
My L. has always been a party-planner. While he’s not a fan of parties in general (too noisy, too many people, too much food), he likes to plan a party, especially when he can be in control of every single detail. But it’s been awhile since he’...
The family that plays together...
What makes a Sunday morning even better? Flipping hot pumpkin pancakes over the griddle while listening to your kids play Monopoly with your parents. L. loves the game, and could play it uninterrupted for hours if given the chance. When I was growing...
Three things from the weekend
Did you have spectacular fall weather like we had this weekend? I spent most of it outdoors, making up for all the sick, couch-ridden days from the weekend before. We raked, finally put away the Halloween decorations (it’s so much easier and exciti...
Blast from the past
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Then and now
Back when I was a kid, sick days seemed a little golden, somehow, tinged with a magic to them, spun from something out-of-the-ordinary. It was never fun to be sick, but getting to stay home was like being given a chance to step back into those perfec...
Note from the trenches
You might feel the need to Lysol your computer monitor after all the H1N1 posts I've been putting up this week... It must be some type of cosmic joke that after spending so much time wrestling with the H1N1 vaccine question and writing about it yest...
Paper dreams
One thing that's really struck me as different now that T. has a couple months of kindergarten under her belt, is what effect school has had on her assertiveness. She's a pleaser by nature and sometimes asserting herself takes a back seat to my big-h...
Time out
Yesterday I finally did what I had put off for two years--I skipped out of my office hours early (grouching all the way to myself about the work I needed to do) and headed to my OB/Gyn for that exam--you know the one--the one that's supposed to happe...
Me Day
Yesterday morning my office-mate/friend and I joked that we weren't the only ones who benefited from the two-days off for Fall Break. We left our clunky, prehistoric printer in a non-working state on Thursday--whirring endlessly to itself, and a coup...
Declaration of independence
When I teach the first semester of Freshman Composition, I usually assign a particular reading to my students--one dealing with the question of public space, what it is, how it can be altered, and who alters it.read more...
Family-friendly?
If you are a working parent, is your company family-friendly? Take a minute to think about what you think family-friendly really means--in your ideal world (we're not talking reality, here). You can make a list, as I make my students often do in clas...
Sanctuary of food
I recently asked my developmental writing students to write up a descriptive piece about food: what foods they remember from their childhoods, and the associations these foods have now in their lives, now that they are out on their own for the first ...
Ready or not...again
On Sunday afternoon T. asked for some computer time, so I set her up in the office with her favorite site, and busied myself peeling potatoes for dinner. Not even ten minutes later T. came out with her hand in her mouth, and an awed, almost frightene...
