Analyzing the joys and funny bits of parenting and the domestic life
Life has really been stepping up a lot lately. Play-dates, gymnastics, dancing, work, work and work have combined into a huge Swirling Force that has swooped down and is pushing us along. Surprisingly, I’m feeling pretty calm within the Storm of Life. Happy even. I think, it may be that I truly realize that this [...]
I have a skill that I don’t think I’ve mentioned before. I am a kook-caller. A whisperer to the crazy folk. A wack-a-do magnet. I can walk into any building, in any city, in any country, the world over, and I can guarantee that someone who is slightly…off…will wander up to me. Sometimes these meetings [...]
Never say never, or so they say. Up until now, there hasn’t been a point in my blogging “career” where I thought that I would be part of a panel at a blog conference. At yet, come mid-June, I will indeed be sitting up front alongside a group of amazing women at the Northern Voice [...]
Mud, puddles, pits. These are the siren calls of boyhood. An empty skateboard pit simply must be conquered. The skate park might have been intended for teenage skaters, but in the middle of the day, it is the home to a multitude of small boys thinking that they are like the Big Boys because they [...]
Last summer, I started Operation Two Wheels. I didn’t bother telling anyone about it which meant that Operation Two Wheels was about as top secret as you can get. My mission: to convince my son (then four, now five) to try biking without his training wheels. I can’t recall if it surprised me that my [...]
