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Off To See The Wizard!

January 25, 2013

Next week (next week! where does the time go?) Rio will be performing as a Munchkin in Somerville High School’s production of the Wizard of Oz, at the Somerville Theater. You can buy tickets online and go see her, along with 30 or so other kids from Somerville’s fine public schools. There are three shows, [...]

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Six Weeks of Silence

January 15, 2013

OMG, you guys! Six weeks. Six weeks since I’ve posted any writing at all. What have I been up to? Mostly I’ve been subsumed in holiday madness. I know, I know, the holidays are so two weeks ago. But they were huge for me. We had my favorite family stay with us for two weeks, [...]

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Three Precious Moments

November 29, 2012

Somewhere, Serena picked up some snippets of Gangnam Style. She did not get them from me, for sure. But no matter, she has them in her sweet little brain. Which led her to be singing, “Hey, sexy ladies…” at the top of her lungs the other day. Rio was all, “Serena! Stop that! That’s inappropriate [...]

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Help Me Find the Perfect Bedtime Story!

November 21, 2012

Last year, I gave the girls the first three Sisters Grimm books for the holidays. They devoured them and asked for more. They’ve been reading Sisters Grimm every night for almost a year now, and they’re down to one book left in the series. We’re sad to see this era end; the Sisters Grimm have [...]

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Writing For Huffington Post

November 9, 2012

I’ve accepted a gig writing for Huffington Post about open relationships and non-traditional family dynamics. It’s my goal to write about the intersection of parenting, relationships, sexuality and communication. My first post, about the 2012 election results, went live today. I’ll still be writing straight parenting news for Strollerderby, and blogging my personal adventures here. [...]

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In the Big Girl Zone!

November 8, 2012

“There is that “zone” word again, Mommy,” Serena announced from the back seat. “Z-O-N-E. Now I have seen that three times in my life.” She sounded exasperated, like some words have a lot of nerve showing up on three whole street signs in different parts of town. A fact she keyed into because she is [...]

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Voted!

November 6, 2012

The wait at my polling place was 90 minutes at mid-morning, a time I would have thought would be pretty low traffic. So I had plenty of time to weigh my options on the two things I was still undecided about when I got in line: which presidential candidate to vote for (Obama or Stein) [...]

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Best. Halloween. Ever.

November 1, 2012

And now for the Halloween post. Since the storm didn’t cause Halloween or any of its regularly scheduled rituals to be cancelled in our neighborhood, out we went with costumes and candy bags. My kids are the *perfect age* for trick-or-treating; old enough to “get it”, but not at all cynical about the process yet. [...]

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News From My Warm, Dry Living Room

November 1, 2012

I sat down to write about Halloween and accidentally wrote a post about the hurricane. I guess it’s on my mind. Several of you have asked how we made it through, and the tl;dr answer is: we are completely fine, if feeling sad and worried about our friends in New York. So here on the [...]

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At Least I Have Knitting

October 24, 2012

So I’m having a topsy-turvy kind of sad kind of hopeful kind of exhausting day. As mentioned in my two previous posts. Apparently I’ve also become the kind of blogger who will ignore this blog for a month and then post three times in one day. Which I get to do, because it is *my* [...]

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