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  What a mother should look like

  01.03.10 | Permalink | 38 Comments

  It took two short weeks of sitting in Sunday School together for Dick and I to paint ourselves as faith-deficient troublemakers. (At BYU, this length of time was usually unnecessary; everyone knows that English majors like to ask critical questions.) The teacher today was very nice about it. He probably made a mistake in acknowledging [...]

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  Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness

  12.23.09 | Permalink | 9 Comments

  On Monday Susan almost got ran over by a minivan in the parking lot of Costco. It was lunchtime, I had just picked up the girls from preschool, Susan was in dire need of the potty, I was in a rush to pick up some photo prints and get back up the hill (nine miles) [...]

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  Snow Angels

  12.13.09 | Permalink | 16 Comments

  Today I told Dick: the thing I hated most about my childhood was having to be quiet when my dad needed to sleep.
  It was selfish. My dad was in a Navy residency program back in the draconian doctor days, and he needed his sleep. I don’t even remember how often we had to be quiet, [...]

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  The Practical Season

  10.19.09 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  My little sister Karin called Friday morning. I didn’t recognize her voice at first so I wondered why some chick’s opening line was “Are you at your computer?” especially since it’s not like I’m always in front of my computer. So I couldn’t look up Jay’s Treaty on the Wikipedia for her as she did [...]

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  Sometimes it takes a man

  09.20.09 | Permalink | 13 Comments

  On my post about joining the Bad Mother camp, our good friend Josh left a comment that ends:
  It’s funny. “Bad Fathers,” I think, are men who suffer from strained (or non-existent) relationships with their children. “Bad Mothers,” it seems, are women who suffer from strained relationships with other women.
  At first I thought this was the [...]

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  With apologies to Bad Mothers everywhere

  09.16.09 | Permalink | 41 Comments

  Several months ago I wrote an impassioned argument against the Bad Mother Manifesto. I felt that proudly proclaiming oneself a “Bad Mother” as a way of standing up against (admittedly insane though often-projected) societal expectations was unproductive and defensive. I even went so far as to say that the kind of women who couldn’t shrug [...]

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  Reverse Psychology

  07.20.09 | Permalink | 21 Comments

  Lately the liking has come easier. I always love the baby (the almost-3-year-old baby) who clogs my toilet with half a roll of toilet paper and comes to me with questions like “Mom, can you get this out of my ear?”
  I always love the middle child (the almost-5-year-old middle child) who, when we dropped her [...]

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