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• giveaway

  LeapFrog Tag Reader Winner!

  03.30.09 | Permalink | Comments Off

  And the winner is . . . Kelly, who said: We LOVE Dr. Seuss around here! And while I’m all about reading to my kids, there are days that I can’t read Fox in Socks more than twice in a row without going cross eyed! Both kids (5 and 2.5 yrs) can recite the first [...]

• church

  Joy in the Journey

  03.28.09 | Permalink | 18 Comments

  Dick and I were pretty much ruined by our degrees in English. We can’t help dissecting books and movies, and, especially, the talks given at church by our fellow church members. We’re a tough crowd, and we’ve got a long list of pet peeves. But a couple weeks ago we heard one of the best [...]

• where i'm at

  Everything Zen

  03.27.09 | Permalink | 9 Comments

  Dick likes to tell himself that I am irrational, emotional, and prone to lose my mind in times of stress. I think he had to read The Yellow Wallpaper in school and has flashbacks whenever I get a tiny bit upset that things are blowing up around the house. Earlier this week I thought I [...]

• sex

  Confessions of a Religious Fanatic

  03.26.09 | Permalink | 34 Comments

  So, I have this feminine complaint. Very feminine and very complaint-y. After Dick’s and my customary Sunday afternoon nap, it was very apparent (olfactorally speaking) that he or I (or both of us) had a serious complaint. Is that you? I asked. I don’t know, he said, Is it you? How awkward. (As if sex [...]

• product review

  I thought they would be lovely glimmering purple stones.

  03.23.09 | Permalink | 24 Comments

  When we were looking for a house last year, I wondered a lot about the people who design houses. I think men must design most of the awful kitchens. Men who never stand at a kitchen sink and wish they could watch the kids playing in the backyard and feel the sun on their faces. [...]

• motherhood

  The Case Against Motherhood

  03.21.09 | Permalink | 37 Comments

  In many religious and socioeconomic circles, purposeful motherhood has emerged as a holy calling, a vocation of supposed significance to the well-being of our children, the structure of society, and the future of civilization. But the benefits of purposeful motherhood aren’t well-documented in the literature. And motherhood itself is perhaps a selfish luxury whose perpetuation [...]

• daughters

  Why it terrifies me to mother daughters

  03.19.09 | Permalink | 26 Comments

  When my sister’s husband walked out on her and their three children, aged five, three, and one, my sister was shattered. I held her as she cried that day, and I raged that a man could be so careless with the heart and the lives that were given in trust to him. It’s been a [...]

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