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Art
by Shannon Lell
The term minimalism is also used to describe a trend in design and architecture where in the subject is reduced to its necessary elements. Minimalist design has been highly influenced by Japanese traditional design and architecture. In addition, the work of De Stijl artists is...
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Feminism,
Kids
by Shannon Lell
I bought my 2-year-old son a raincoat that looks like a firefighter's jacket. For my 4-year-old daughter, I bought a cute hot-pink, cinch-waisted number with a black piping an a bow. I bought them a couple of months ago at Costco and brought them out...
I don't know how to write this post without making myself look like a total asshole. So I won't. Because I am being a total asshole. At least recently.
I have been having the most horrible, mean-spirited and hateful thoughts about another person and no amount...
I did my first guest blog post ever today. I was featured on the incredible Five Kids Is A Lot of Kids Blog by the insanely funny Beth Woolsey. I was so honored to be welcomed into her online home for her series on Parenting...
fWhen my parents had me - their third, unexpected child in 1978 - we lived in a small, three bedroom duplex in the small town of Kearney, Missouri. My Dad was a highschool science teacher. For extra money, he coached track and drove the school...
Less than a week after I brought my first baby home, after the post-birthing euphoria wore off, after all the relatives had cooed, cuddled, and given back the baby -- I fell silently, like a deflating balloon, into a bout of despair.
I had nothing or...
This past weekend I was solo-parenting from Friday until Tuesday because my husband went to a destination bachelor party. I didn't dread this. Nor did I mind. But come Thursday of this week - after the solo pool trips, the solo grocery trips, the solo...
I wrote this for Mamapedia. 1. Stop measuring your successes and failures through your children.If your little Joe Jr. or Suzy Q. melts to the ground screaming like a maimed hyena because he/she refuses to take turns on the swing while all the Moms in your...
I was 23 the last time we got in a physical fight.
I lived with my parent's all through my college years while I attended a local University. I was 21 before I moved out and paid my own rent. After nine months of that, I changed...
My son is 22 months and he loves his Mama somethin’ fierce. He is much more attached to me than my daughter was at this age. If he loses track of me in the house I can hear him from the other room saying, “Where’s...