Who is the kindest person you know?
My mother-in-law is both the kindest and toughest person I know - so after having known her, I can do away with any notion that being nice means that people can walk all over you.... More »
My mother-in-law is both the kindest and toughest person I know - so after having known her, I can do away with any notion that being nice means that people can walk all over you.... More »
I just wanted to take a blog post here to publicly show gratitude for "the village" that is helping me raise my children, and grow myself as a mother and human. I know there are... More »
I want good health -- physical and emotional -- for my entire family . I want to spend my entire life with True, and I want him to spend his entire life with me, up... More »
My neighbors. This is an especially timely question for me, since we'll be moving in a few weeks. We're not going far -- technically, we could walk to the new place -- but it'll be... More »
I actually love advice! I've gotten lots of good advice over time...here are a few great ones, paraphrased: From a cousin with three kids older than mine: "Just surrender to your new baby. The first... More »
I haven't had as much time to myself lately to write, so I'm sorry I haven't been writing much here. Hopefully, I'll get more time in the coming weeks. Yesterday some friends visited who we... More »
True and I are house-hunting, and of course simultaneously trying to get our current house ready to put on the market this winter/spring. This requires a major house-cleaning, house-purging extravaganza, forcing us to spend hours... More »
This blog entry is dedicated to the wonderful people who live around us, raise children around us, struggle and celebrate and eat and play and laugh around us. I think one of the best things... More »
I got into some trouble with a recent blog post. I hate hurting people's feelings -- partly because I don't like to be thought of as someone who hurts people's feelings, but also because I... More »
In the past few months, I've spent quite a bit of time digging through the layers of krill on the internet to find information about the various things Little Shmoo and I have gone through.... More »