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Scorpions in the Shower
Yesterday, I had the kind of day that included: • a 7 AM parking lot tutoring session for daughter #1 • the announcement: “Mommy, I tied a cherry stem with my tongue…” (–for the 7th time. We’re going...
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Book Talk with What Not to Wear’s Style Guru Stacy London
“Writing this book was a labor of love. Emphasis on labor,” Stacy London said in a recent book talk she gave in my town about her newly released title: The Truth About Style. “I gained 15 pounds. I...
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Just a Parenting Moment: Thoughts on Teenage Relationships
My soon-to-be-sixteen-year-old daughter is gearing up for a boyfriend upgrade. I must confess I liked version 1.0. Despite the fact that he ate only Mac-N-Cheese and Mac-without-the cheese, I was sad...
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“He asked me to be his Valentine, Mommy. What do I tell him?”
My twelve-year-old posed this question. With the days of the sparkly Valentine’s box and confetti-decorated, pink cupcakes mostly behind us, I pondered my own questions. Who is this boy? What is he...
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Laughing into memory: Sharing a Buffalo blizzard with my teenager & mother
Last week my fifteen-year-old laughed at seeing her breath one morning as she scraped frost off her the windshield of the car. For the first time. My pleasure came from the pure, uncensored delight of...
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“What’s a hook-up, anyway?”
Words and meanings are slippery. Crossing cultures and time, words have a way of morphing. Generational Syntactical Blunders One evening after dinner, a young man visited our household for...
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Laughing into memory: Sharing a Buffalo blizzard with my teenager & mother
Since it’s the season of blizzards, I thought it timely to repost this. My thoughts go out for the safety and fun of those hunkered down braving the Blizzard of 2015. As I hold down a house with two...
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