A Painful Topic, really Painful While we were in the park yesterday my little one said “I don’t like any games when I am lying down and someone is standing over me because of this” and waved his hand delicately over his crotch area. I said, “Oh, I see”. He continued, “I don’t really like … Continue reading A Painful Topic, really Painful
Family
Labour Day and Rose was Born
When I held my new born daughter Rose in my arms on a sunny Saturday 19 years ago I was suffused with happiness. I remember thinking I had joy flowing through my veins. I felt as if my body was creating an ecstatic yet calm energy. I’ll never forget the feeling of sitting in my … Continue reading Labour Day and Rose was Born
My Mom and Parkinson’s
I sent a letter to my mom the other week, on some pretty note paper that I found at a garage sale, with a nice stamp. In it I wrote of my childhood and how I remember her as a blur of movement, laughter, and storytelling. She was high spirited in her domesticity: we had … Continue reading My Mom and Parkinson’s
Playing Clue on a Rainy Night
What I love about our house that sits across from the sea is that it is like living in a cottage all the time. In the summer we hang our salty towels on the porch and barely let them dry before we hit the next high tide. In the winter we get a fire going … Continue reading Playing Clue on a Rainy Night
Myths about good parenting
There are no tips to parenting that will make your job easier. The most important thing you must do as a parent is enjoy being with your children. Every other parenting style or passing fad will at best be accidentally positive, and at the worst, destructive on some level. Even if you are a very … Continue reading Myths about good parenting
The Ring Finger
The Ring Finger It all began with a dehumidifier in an odd place and a glass jar of homemade granola, still warm,being carried from one corner of the kitchen to the other. Now I have a crooked finger, and if I do not stretch and massage and pull and aggravate that darn ring finger a … Continue reading The Ring Finger
Notes from a Sinking Isthmus 