Today I am pleased to welcome Amber of Making the Moments Count as my latest guest in Amy’s Won’t You Be My Neighbor series. I met Amber last fall shortly after I started blogging (thanks again to Jen and Sarah of Momalom and their Five for Ten event). I was immediately drawn to her writing [...]
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I’m on the road today. You can find me musing about my motivations for blogging over at Christine’s wonderful blog, Coffees and Commutes. Please check out my post and then stick around to read some of Christine’s wonderful reflections on her life as a working mom trying to balance her family, her job, and herself. [...]
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Today it is my pleasure to welcome my buddy Liz of …but then I had kids to Motherese for a neighborly chat. I met Liz – like so many of my other favorite blogging buddies – through Momalom’s Five for Ten and I have been greedily devouring her posts ever since. The word that first [...]
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Good morning, class! I know many of you are on spring break this week and I don’t believe in assigning homework during school vacations. But if you feel up for some extra credit, please click over and check out my guest post at The Kitchen Witch. And, for some serious brownie points, head over and [...]
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I am very pleased today to welcome my neighbor Jen of Momalom over for a chat. I first met Jen and her sister Sarah when they launched their Five for Ten event last fall. I had just started blogging and I was most fortunate to be welcomed into their warm, wise, and wonderful community of [...]
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The lights are on, but no one’s home. That’s right: I’m over at Momalom today, musing about something I lost and wondering whether I should bother looking for it. Intrigued? Well, click on over, read my guest post, and then stay awhile to check out Jen and Sarah’s wonderful blog where they riff on sisterhood, [...]
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Today I am happy to welcome my neighbor Stacia of Fluffy Bunnies over for a chat. Stacia is a new friend of mine, but hers quickly became one of my favorite neighborhood hang-outs. I love her perspective on parenthood “the glass half-full way” and marvel at the way she extracts universal lessons about life, love, [...]
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Today it is my pleasure to welcome Becca of Drama for Mama as my latest guest in the Won’t You Be My Neighbor series. (Thanks again to Amy of The Never-True Tales for initiating this wonderful meme.) At Drama for Mama, Becca crafts posts so resonant to me that I often feel like she’s plucked [...]
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Today I am pleased to welcome my neighbor Maureen of IslandRoar for a Friday morning chat. Visiting Maureen’s blog, where she discusses “the significant, the mundane, and the downright absurd,” is like sitting down for a cup of tea with a wise friend. She writes with a deft and delightful touch, alternately bringing a smile [...]
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There’s a whole lotta house-sitting going on this week. Holding down the fort chez Motherese is one of the wisest, wittiest women in the neighborhood: The Kitchen Witch. I love to drop by her place for a plate full of levity-laden truth. Kitch can write like nobody’s business, and her sense of humor is as [...]
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Last Friday I was pleased to share with you a piece by Elizabeth Grant, one of the “21st Century Penpals” behind one of my favorite blogs, Life in Pencil. In today’s edition of Won’t You Be My Neighbor, I am delighted to welcome Elizabeth’s partner-in-blog, Anne. Anne captured my attention immediately by outing herself as [...]
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Today it is my pleasure to host the writing of Elizabeth Grant, one-half of the dynamic partnership behind Life in Pencil. After I discovered Life in Pencil last month, it quickly became one of the first stops each morning on my bloggy rounds. Elizabeth, a self-described “change-a-holic,” never fails to impress me with her introspection [...]
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Dear friends, I’m over at IslandRoar today, musing about whether blogs are the letters of the 21st century. Please click on over to read my thoughts and to share your own. Thanks, Maureen, for lending your space to me today! Love, Kristen
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Today it is my pleasure to welcome Nicki of Nicki’s Nook, my first guest poster here at Motherese, and the first neighbor I’ve invited in for a chat as part of the Won’t You Be My Neighbor series at The Never-True Tales. I admire Nicki for many reasons: her commitment to writing, her level-headed perspective [...]
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Mar 05
Today my good buddy Jane of Theycallmejane’s Blog and I are doing a house swap. She’s keeping an eye on things here at Motherese while I keep the home fires burning at her place with a guest post of my own. I have to thank Aidan, my bloggy fairy godsister, for introducing me to Jane [...]
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