01 Jan Life Puzzles
We have several wooden, peg puzzles for our children. I started purchasing them when our first child, our daughter, was barely a year old. We have letters, numbers, shapes, colors, animals...
We have several wooden, peg puzzles for our children. I started purchasing them when our first child, our daughter, was barely a year old. We have letters, numbers, shapes, colors, animals...
I spend a lot of my day in motion--cleaning, cooking, carting--basically, careening from one moment to the next. It's a perpetual cycle of ups and downs, back and forths, over here, to over there, go, go, gone. On the surface, there isn't much to show...
One of my best friends is on the fence about having children, but I'm not, I told her not to. My advice isn't because I regret becoming a mother, or that I think she'd be a bad one--on the contrary. I know she'd be a...
There are six women I call my best friends. I would walk through hell-fire for these women and the feelings are mutual. I am exceptionally fortunate in this regard. I love my mother, but I would not characterize her as one of my best friends although the...
Seven years ago today I was looking out the window of a hotel room onto an habitually grey, Seattle sky trying not to bite my acrylic nails. I was thinking that the worst thing that could ever happen to me would be rain on my...
I believe in Karma. The word Karma comes from Eastern religions such as Hindu and Buddhism. The literal translation is "action" or "deed," but it is understood as that which causes an entire cycle of cause and effect. Although its origins are ancient, it has been...
It's a rainy afternoon when the boredom gives way to silliness and Daddy wrestles with Daughter on the floor while Baby Boy claps his hands and squeals wildly making Mommy grow sudden tears. It's the recognition that Your whole world sits in front of You on a small square...