It is my pleasure today to offer you a guest post by Wolf Pascoe of Just Add Father. I’ve only known Wolf, a father, physician, and writer, for a few months, but he swiftly earned himself a spot in my Google Reader with his insightful, beautifully written posts on the problems and prospects of parenting. [...]
{ 38 comments }
I’m lucky. I know that. I really do. I have three lovely, healthy kids, a wonderful husband, loving and supportive parents, financial stability, great friends. So why do I find myself in a lingering “Mom Funk”? I think it has something to do with time, and my slowly sinking realization that there are, in fact, only [...]
{ 67 comments }
I’ve been in a “Mom Funk” lately – so much so that I feel like I’ve forgotten my good parenting instincts and am looking everywhere for help in resetting my internal compass. I surf around Internet parenting sites that I usually never visit hoping that they will give me the answer to all of my questions, [...]
{ 76 comments }
We had a party on Saturday morning in honor of Stage 14 of the Tour de France. We ate croissants and crepes, drank mimosas and cafe au lait, and paid half-attention to our children as we watched dozens of skinny men drag their bodies and their bikes up the Plateau de Beille. I’ve written before [...]
{ 32 comments }
Do you ever picture me in your mind as a graceful, poised individual? Please allow me to disabuse you of that notion. A constellation of bruises typically dots my legs, battle scars from such heroic feats as emptying the garbage or watering the garden. Although I’ve hit my head many times, my forehead has two main [...]
{ 25 comments }
I’m old, Gandalf. I know I don’t look it, but I’m beginning to feel it in my heart. I feel…thin. Sort of stretched, like…butter scraped over too much bread. I need a holiday. A very long holiday. – Bilbo Baggins, from J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring I’m feeling worn out lately. That may [...]
{ 49 comments }
Hello. My name is Kristen. As a very little girl, I was called “Krissy,” a name that my mom’s brothers and sister still use for me and which never fails to make me giggle. I then became “Kris” and remain so to my parents, my younger brother, Husband, our extended families, and a few good [...]
{ 40 comments }
The spring before my freshman year in high school, I received a pamphlet from my soon-to-be English teachers telling me the books they had chosen for our summer reading: Watership Down, The Caine Mutiny, and The Clan of the Cave Bear. Who knows what inspired them to select that odd stew of rabbits, sailors, and [...]
{ 76 comments }
Sometimes I think Americans must have invented the exclamation mark – it’s their state of mind. – Monika Kochhar, new American citizen* Happy Fourth of July to you and yours. Exclamation point. What do you think of Kochhar’s suggestion? Any other favorite quotes or axioms about Americans? What’s your favorite punctuation mark? (I’m partial to [...]
{ 14 comments }
For the duration of my pregnancy with Baby Sister – especially during the last few weeks of it when it seemed clear that my body was telling me it was not really meant to do this work – I was convinced that this was my last pregnancy. And when Baby Sister was born and she [...]
{ 37 comments }