likeness

February 3, 2010

Aside from a few common physical characteristics that we share, I often find my daughter’s similarities to me to be among her most difficult traits.  As much as I am proud of her for so willfully being her own person, it makes her a difficult child to parent especially when we’re both so determined to [...]

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get out…

February 2, 2010

I can’t begin to tell you how beautiful it is outside today, if I could I would have started this differently.  I can tell you though that as I walked home this morning after taking K to school I went blocks out of my way to bask in the crisp cold sunshine for just a [...]

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clean up special

January 31, 2010

I’ve been cleaning out my office space instead of writing, in celebration of that I thought I would reach into one of these two huge file folders filled with poetry and share one from 1996:
And drowsy
wishing for that
half sleep
I wait for what will come
to take me away
as I know
the two hours I slept last night
in [...]

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sleep notes on a wednesday

January 27, 2010

I woke up at 5 AM because my kid decided to head-butt me.  In her defense she was sleeping.  In my defense I didn’t kill anyone for it.  But 5 is a full 90 minutes before I had to get up.  I could have curled right back into that sweet dream I was having about [...]

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in the clear

January 22, 2010

I quit drinking caffeine a while ago, and I didn’t mention it here so much because I wasn’t looking forward to the part where I fell on my face in utter and complete caffeine giving up failure and had to come back and tell you all that I fell off the caffeine wagon.
It wasn’t a [...]

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musing

January 18, 2010

I forget sometimes that writing is work because I often sit a play at it, letting the words fall from on high when they want to.  Writing is a pleasure for me.  A comfort.  A constant in a life that, though it has been happy, is often tumultuous.
So sometimes one emotion, one thought, one thing [...]

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dear 2010: can we make a deal?

January 11, 2010

First, let me say thank you 2010.  You’ve been pretty fucking awesome.  Seriously.  As far as the first 11 days of the year go I’m hard pressed to recall better.
And I’m busy.  And not really the bad busy that makes me crazy because I have no time.  The busy you’re handing me is incredible.  All [...]

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Bad Parenting 101

January 7, 2010

It’s 31 minutes until my child’s bedtime.
The big homework packet that she gets at the beginning of the week?  It sits half finished on the dining table.  She has 3 sheets of paper she’s not happy with that she wants to discard and she’s currently in the bathroom weeping copious and highly dramatic tears.
She keeps [...]

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umbrella

January 4, 2010

As I greeted my daughter at school pickup she was all smiles.  Glowing.  She was proud of herself and all she’d done today, happy to be back with her friends and engaged in their current science project.  She bounced toward me and I gave her umbrella to her.  She opened it up and hand in [...]

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hello there Monday, you sly son of a…

January 3, 2010

Wow, those last couple of weeks just zipped right by didn’t they?
What?  You don’t remember them?  The last couple weeks of LAST year, the first few days of THIS year?  Yeah.  They were quick.  And tomorrow is a whole new world!  I love my kid.  I do.  She’s all kinds of great wrapped up in [...]

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