From the monthly archives:

March 2010

Beauty All Around Me

March 31, 2010

I’m having a craptastic day. A day that is as out-of-focus as this blurry photo of me. A photo I took last weekend at a clothing swap where I was feeling beautiful but then it came out all wrong. Which is kind of how I feel today: I should be beautiful, but I’m coming out [...]

Tagged as: beauty, writing

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Lions and Toddlers and Bears!

March 30, 2010

So Martin took Serena to the Harvard Museum of Natural History the other day. Before she left, she told me Daddy had promised her they would see a lion. “I think it will be a scary lion, Mama,” she said. “I think maybe that lion is going to eat us.” “No, sweetie. The lion at [...]

Tagged as: parenting, play, serena

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More on the Wonders of Quitting

March 26, 2010

My post on ‘Why I Quit Everything’ is featured on BlogHer today. I love BlogHer. I’m proud to be part of their publishing network, and thrilled that they’re sharing my writing with their readers. If you haven’t seen the new BlogHer site, go there right now. It’s a thing of beauty. If you came here [...]

Tagged as: alternative education, blogher, childhood, education, educational philosophy, feature, free-range parenting, fun, homeschooling, ian, quits, remember, rio, serena, slow parenting, unschooling

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What Should My Garden Grow?

March 25, 2010

We played outside all day, remaking the garden walls and prepping the beds. Yes, I know we should have done it three weeks ago, but. But. It’s done now. This weekend, I’ll plant some Stuff. But what? Last year we had mad success with peas and sunflowers, and just middling love from everything else. We [...]

Tagged as: chili pepper, food, garden, garden grow, garden walls, green, grow, hot pepper, plants, the garden

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Heading South For the Winter

March 24, 2010

The Southern winter, that is. Martin just bought the plane tickets for our family to spend the entire month of July in Argentina with his family. He grew up there, and was the only one to leave. His parents and three siblings all live within a few miles of each other in Buenos Aires, with [...]

Tagged as: family, family of origin, money, travel, vacation

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Washing the Floors, Cinderella Style

March 22, 2010

The kids and I spent Friday afternoon washing the kitchen together in our bathing suits. Well, they were in their bathing suits. I’m a delicate flower and wore jeans and a long-sleeve T-shirt and a sweater and wool socks and a bemused expression. I’ve washed my floor with a wide variety of mops and gadgets, [...]

Tagged as: bathing suit, cloth diapers, culture, floor washing, green, kids, mop, parenting, simple, slow parenting, washing

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Best of Web: Moms Who Blog Edition

March 21, 2010

It’s been a fascinating week to be a mommyblogger. Usually, I’m not very interested in talking or writing about blogging. It’s just the current medium for a lot of my writing; what I have to say generally seems more interesting to me than how I say it. Not this week. First, the New York Times [...]

Tagged as: best of web, blog, blog entry, blogs, career, mom, news this week, week, women writing, writing

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Weekly Links, Now With More Sleep

March 20, 2010

Here’s the links. I’ve been down with a stomach bug most of the week, and didn’t write as much as I normally do, but I had fun with what I did write. The news item of the week, of course, is the NYT snarking on moms who blog. Did You Really Call That Kid A [...]

Tagged as: baby sleep, mama, mean girl, news item, nyt, sleeping, the new york times, week, weekly link round-up, writing

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Those Princesses Are So Last Week

March 19, 2010

A few nights ago, Rio was carefully eyeing Molly‘s bike helmet. The shiny black helmet sets off the pink horns nicely. The flowing pink braids give it a sweet touch. Molly calls it her Valkyrie helmet. “Can I try it on?” Rio asked. Yes. She tried it on. She ran around the house prancing and [...]

Tagged as: american idols, bicycle helmet, bike helmets, disney princess, funny, helmet, helmets, pink helmets, princess, princess bike, princesses, recreation, rio

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Speaking Of A Room Of One’s Own

March 17, 2010

This post brought to you by Rio. I had another whole screed planned about the business of blogging and how women are being consumed by big media and advertising agencies, but it will have to wait. Rio had a topic request for today. It went like this: Rio said, “What is the New York Times, [...]