Seven Angels, Four Kids, One Family
Sometimes sarcasm is the only sane response
A note to small business owners: the following is the easiest way to lose a customer. For my birthday, my mother bought me a gift certificate for some lessons, specifying that I would call for them in the summertime. When…
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While I’m told most parents look forward to the start of the school year, here it hits hard. During the school year, I lose sleep. The kids’ schedules are such that I’m cut short every morning by about half an…
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My five year old has playdates every day with two boys he says are triplets with him. He asks me to call their mothers so they can come over, or he can go over there. When he comes up with…
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And why writer’s block is a good, useful thing. Like any other symptom, its purpose is to tell the writer something is wrong. I’m defining writer’s block as a sudden loss of desire to write when the project was previously…
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I read a blog post a while ago about three questions one mom asks her kids about their friends. I’ve forgotten where I saw it. The third question was, “When was the last time they did something good when they…
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“Are you okay?” she asked me. “You look upset.” Yanked back to myself, I looked up, trying to figure out why I wouldn’t be okay. Why would I be looking upset? What had I just been thinking? She’s the mother…
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Ah, the beginning of the school year, the time of the useless assignment. Case in point: Kiddo#1, beginning 7th grade, was assigned to make a poster illustrating one of the rules of the science lab. You know, rules like “Don’t…
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The co-stereotype of someone who’s “bookish” is absolutely wrong, as it turns out. That kid with her nose buried in a book all the time is actually more empathetic than her non-reader counterparts. So says “Changing Our Minds…By Reading Fiction”…
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About a year before yesterday’s battle royale between a guardian angel and a wasp, we had the warmup version. It was early spring, 2006. I had the kids out in the front yard and I was clearing the flower garden…
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It’s been a while since I posted an angel-story, so here goes. This is from my May, 2007 journal. A wasp had gotten into the house. I saw it at night while I was loading the dishwasher. Now, my guardian…
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