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Finish this sentence?

she had been narrating their lives for so long that she…  Filed under: Insight, Mid-Life Mama, Milestone Moments, Readers Voices, Round Two, Teens Tagged: family life shifting, mother's focus, mother's...

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On Being Mom, by Anna Quindlen

The pensive infant with the swipe of dark bangs and the blackbutton eyes of a Raggedy Andy doll. The placid baby with the yellow ringlets and the high piping voice. The sturdy toddler with the lower...

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the fading of the kindergarten wall

3:36 pm. The school bus stops at our driveway, across from the pond, but no one gets off. Our youngest, 14, has just, this very moment, touched down in Liberia, Costa Rica with his Junior High...

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Mommy Graduation

Earlier this month I experienced mounting anxiety as my youngest approached graduation; but not because he wasn’t ready. It was me. I’ve devoted a lifetime to children, and not just the past 21 years...

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when the end is near…

There was the afternoon when i slid down the wall in the hallway in front of the bookshelf and dozed there with a lap full of journals; until voices lifted my gaze out the window toward the hill, where...

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It could have been this simple…

Tonight, after 20 years of parenting, my creativity evaporated, so I just said: “What did you learn today?” And then I heard a whole lot about Bangladesh.   Filed under: Insight, Mid-Life Mama,...

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11 Things We Learned~in a week without the kids

One summer a few years back, I stumbled upon a brilliant act of self-love. I arranged for both of our boys to be away from home at the same time. Our oldest departed early Sunday morning on a road trip...

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Children as teachers

Turns out that we no longer have paints at home, yet another casualty of grown children. And so I’ve made my very first rally signs with marker and crayon. Seems like I’ve been to lots of rallies in...

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Ode to the Youngest, About to Leave…

Grown children leave and come back in a game of cat & mouse with our hearts. Road trips. Fox love. YouTube clips. Listen to this song. Try this latte, sushi, cookie. ”Hug?” (him) He came for the...

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