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Tiny Mantras
http://www.tinymantras.com
Adventures in normality, parenting and armchair space travel, written by a Midwestern journalist.
- Added on: Aug 25th, 2005
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Tracy Zollinger Turner
- Listed in: Personal Moms Journalists
- Tags: pictures astronomy writing journalism motherhood columbus
Recent Posts
Mean girl, reconsidered
She was my mean girl in high school.I dreaded going to school. I dreaded the classes we had together. I was sure it was her that scrawled the word "bitch" on my locker or my notebook that one day in French class, that she convinced one of her friends...
Ohio Moms blog
It's new, still in soft launch phase. You can read a fresh post by me over there today. Subscribe in a reader Copyright Tracy Zollinger Turner, Tinymantras.com, 2009. ...
Cookie lookers
When I was a teenage girl in the 1980s, teachers, local news producers and general do-gooders were keen on showing my kind what a woman entrepreneur looked like. I remember at least two times when I was pulled into an assembly hall of some sort where...
I gave birth to the whole universe
I decided to make up a bedtime story last night, choose-your-own adventure style.Me: "Once upon a time, there was a boy named... Antonio or Declan?"Declan: "Declan!"Me: "This boy Declan grew up to become a... paleontologist or astronaut? Which should...
Fairy dust
"Here mommy, let me put some of this on you," my boy says to me.He rubs glitter into my collarbone like a salve."Now make a wish," he instructs me. "It will take 24 hours for it to start doing its work, right after my wishes start working. So... what...
Happy accidents
Things got all Dada/Surreal here last night. We dipped rubber bands and cut up cloth and string into paint and dropped them onto paper to create "happy accident" paintings a la Marcel Duchamp.* We enjoyed lines and organic shapes for their random nat...
