Dear lovely you, Shhh, honey. Your heart is beating quickly and your brow is furrowed to exhaustion. Your tension headache is a dull ache reaching its tendrils toward full roar. And worse, your heart is heavy with a pounding of things left undone. There are always things undone when … [Read more...] about Dear Tired Mamas: You Can’t Do it All, So Stop Trying
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I Like Your Face (Thoughts on Raising a Confident Daughter)
She’s absolutely gorgeous, in my personal and biased opinion. Most of the time I feel totally unequipped in raising my five-year-old daughter to become a confident and secure woman with a positive body image, especially in today's world. “Complex” doesn’t even begin to cover … [Read more...] about I Like Your Face (Thoughts on Raising a Confident Daughter)
Dear Mom in the Tunnel
I sat at the mall coffee shop today clacking keys on my laptop, with my leather jacket and stylish infinity scarf, certain that every blessed soul that passed by immediately took me for the young and childless 23-year-old that I still am (in my mind). I had not a single toddler … [Read more...] about Dear Mom in the Tunnel
I Am Supermom
I was great with child exactly five years ago, sweltering in my hugeness with heat radiating from concrete, counting down the weeks until. Then on a bright and sunny afternoon in September I birthed a child and took the title, "mother", just like that. Boom. For all of these … [Read more...] about I Am Supermom
Dear World: Food is Not a Moral Issue
Center Image by Nico Paix via Flickr CC Dear World: We need to talk. You've gotten into a really bad habit of equating a person's worth or character with the depth of their healthy eating habits. Unfortunately, food manufacturers have gotten wind of this and now design their … [Read more...] about Dear World: Food is Not a Moral Issue
New Kind of Sexy
Dearest One, Today we mark ten years of marriage. Happily, even. With a touch of pride and a cautious joy. Given that a few short months ago I didn’t think I wanted to stay married I’d say we’re doing pretty well. Ten years ago when I married you under the muggy late-spring sun on … [Read more...] about New Kind of Sexy
Dear Middle Class America: I Have a Bone to Pick With You…
Dear Middle-Class America: Guess what? I make my own chicken stock. I even blogged about it. I buy organic, free-range chicken carcasses to make it with, and that's pretty well the extent of what I am able to afford from our organic/grass-fed/free-range/humane meat supplier as of … [Read more...] about Dear Middle Class America: I Have a Bone to Pick With You…
Living the American Dream (Motherhood Edition)
“”No man can live without joy” is what Thomas Aquinas wrote. And I confess, it is true, I have known many dead waiting to die”.[i] * Here I sit, fireside, in a leather chair, sipping my Starbucks. I haven’t seen my husband or children in 24 hours. I’ve interacted only with total … [Read more...] about Living the American Dream (Motherhood Edition)
The Domestic Monastery
This post was originally published on March 25, 2010. I am recycling it today for your enjoyment, as it is so relevant to what I'm learning (still) in this season of life. *** A while ago I stumbled across this article online, but for the life of me, cannot remember how or … [Read more...] about The Domestic Monastery