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• commentary

  Because They Would Do The Work Anyway

  11.24.08 | Permalink | 11 Comments

  Leslie Kaufman had an interesting article about caregivers in the New York Times last week. It explored the special care that a caregiver who is related to her charge can provide. According to one such caregiver, Tracy Keil, she* can help her charges who don’t want “just a baby sitter” to live as they would [...]

• motherhood

  Thoroughly Unworthy Emotions

  10.20.08 | Permalink | 10 Comments

  Last week I was reading one of my favorite group Mormon woman blogs, and halfway through the post I felt disturbed, betrayed, cheated. I’ve had a mild blog crush on Heather O. for a while now, and I just couldn’t believe she was using words like “conferences,” “continuing education,” “license,” “our patients,” and “graduate school.” [...]

• Dick, marriage

  We who are your mothers and wives salute you!

  09.15.08 | Permalink | 15 Comments

  On Friday Dick had to attend his first (and hopefully last) Boy Scout Jamboral. Since the Boy Scouts have even more regulations and permits than merit badges, Dick and his boys were going to catch a ride with someone authorized to transport scouts, but the plan was for me to drop them off at the [...]