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Spring!

March 22, 2012

Happy spring all! I got sick for a few days, which I spent lolling on the couch watching Dowton Abbey and being tenderly tended to by my devoted husband, and when I got better it was suddenly spring. Not even early spring. Full-blown, warm days and warm nights, flowers in the garden, gentle breezes spring. [...]

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Thank You For Believing In Fairies

March 15, 2012

There’s been some big stuff going on around here. My open marriage essays for Salon and Babble have garnered some national media attention, which I’ll say more about in a little while. There’s been a flurry of filming and interviews and it’s all very exciting. This is just to say: my people are awesome. My [...]

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Taking On The Spooky Things

January 31, 2012

For the past several months (basically since she started preschool), Serena has been grappling with The Spooky Things. They live inside the scary thoughts in her head. They come out when she’s alone, and especially when she is in the bathroom. Before I go further, about the bathroom fears: A commenter at Strollerderby suggested the [...]

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Sloths

January 29, 2012

Rio’s interest in reproduction continues unabated. Now her questions have moved on to the animal kingdom. She recently learned about sloths somewhere (maybe at school?), and tried out with her dad and her sister making sloth motions at bedtime. This cleverly dragged out bedtime to record levels, and gave both girls an object lesson in [...]

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Strangers with Candy

January 29, 2012

I posted about this elsewhere, but it’s annoying me enough that I want to talk about it here. This safety alert went out from the principal of our neighborhood school: A message from Benjamin G. Brown School Principal Kathleen Seward I am writing to alert you to an incident that was reported after school yesterday. [...]

Tagged as: free-range parenting

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What Marriage Means To Me

January 25, 2012

One of my commenters on the last post asked me what marriage means to me. She had a long interesting story around her question; I recommend reading hers and all the comments on that post. It’s tempting to be glib and say marriage doesn’t mean much to me: I got married as an expedient way [...]

Tagged as: marriage, martin, polyamory

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Talking About Open Marriage

January 23, 2012

Hello Salon readers! If you came here from there, you already know I’m on Salon talking about my open marriage. If you’re a regular reader of this blog (hi, Mom!), you can go there for the juicy details about my romantic life, and then come back here for some regularly scheduled programming. Or you can [...]

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The Boots

January 21, 2012

Rio’s school has these Parent Teacher Learning Groups. They’re like little conciousness raising groups on various topics, and are one of the big things I love about her school. You can form a group about anything: knitting, diversity, stress management. This year I’m in a group focused on activism. Our big activity for the year: [...]

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Happy (Belated) New Year!

January 12, 2012

Hello, beloved readers, and welcome to 2012! This blog was hacked by some nefarious douchebag a bored kid around New Year’s, and I’ve just now gotten it back online, thanks to the efforts of my amazing girlfriend. So here we are, new year, new blank page, new blog. I’d resolved to blog every day for 2012, [...]

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Happy 7.5 Birthday, Rio!

November 24, 2011

While the rest of us prepare for a day full of traditional foods and connecting with family, Rio has noticed that she is exactly 7.5 years old today, and wishes to celebrate that. So, without further ado: Happy Half Birthday, Rio! May you continue to be brave, kind, wild, clever and unafraid of asking for [...]