I don’t have much of a beauty routine, I basically wing it. Some days it works and I walk with a bounce in my step, other days I turn my phone away from my face as I click the camera on, fearful it will be set to snap my face and reveal the toll of [...]
Monday, October 17, 2011
This morning I read a beautifully written post that, as happens frequently with Mom-101, coursed its way through familiar grooves in my working-mom scar tissue. It was only an hour before that I’d been at the dentist, Finley in tow, to have Briar seen. A tooth ache last Thursday led to a Friday morning call, [...]
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Today did not come gently, it clattered down over me after the riotous exit of the disaster that was yesterday. I vowed not to let myself give into the temptation to be forcefully bitter and resentful. While my fingertips aren’t bloody, they should be for all the clinging to positivity I’ve practiced. I snapped at [...]
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
I feel a bit like the wheel on my MacBook, at the office we refer to it as the wheel of death, at home Finley squeals, “It’s workin’, it’s workin’.” I want to believe she’s right, that like that relentless little wheel, I am working. It would be so deeply reassuring to think that I [...]
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
I remember as a little girl, standing at the checkout in the grocery store and eyeing the simple print-outs with a fluttering heart. Those holiday coloring contests ignited in me a belief that anything was possible. I imagined that even though I’d never had the steadiest hand in class, I might submit the winning entry. [...]
Friday, February 25, 2011
Here’s the thing, I don’t go to the gym to mack. It probably isn’t even still referred to as that. I never was the kind of girl that actively tried to grab a guy’s attention, so forgive me my clumsy articulation of the act of flaunting your desire to be noticed in public by someone [...]
Monday, January 3, 2011
I was going to write a post about not having resolutions, then I was going to write a post on finding resolve in something. Then I read an article in one of the local papers. It was written by someone I worked with at the paper before I had kids. We would bump into each other [...]
Monday, December 13, 2010
Ok, what is your go-to song to cheer you up? I have been known to play: The Tide is High Fighter I’m awesome Random, yes, but also they make me think about working out. Considering the work I have to do and the shopping that I must tackle, the biggest workout I have to look forward to is holding back [...]
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Nobody likes to talk about how long they take to get ready. Most of us are like, “Huh? Primping? Not me, I’m a wash and go kind of gal. From the shower to the driver’s seat in 10 minutes.” This might be true on those days when I sport my frizzy mop with a halfhearted [...]
Sunday, February 7, 2010
I made Briar’s first Halloween costume. It was a frothy, fluttery affair born from my not so nimble fingers wielding a needle and thread. More pokes in my fingers than stitches in the fabric eventually and literally ‘painstakingly’ led to her wood nymph costume. The last costume I will ever make on my own.
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
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