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I’m Sierra. I live in the Boston area with my family.

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Security theater at the airport

October 30, 2009

I’m in Georgia for the weekend at a retreat. Everyone is cooking a meal: I volunteered to make lentil soup. Because I was unsure of the grocery shopping situation on this end, I brought the ingredients with me. Which led to this conversation with a TSA agent: Me: I have a can of tomatoes in [...]

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Healthy meals, from a kid's perspective

June 12, 2009

The girls are playing house. Rio is the mommy. They are apparently getting ready to go for a picnic, and are packing their lunches. Rio-as-mom, “You have to show me what you packed so I can see if it is healthy for you.” Her friend/baby shows her. Rio, “No, no, no. Just gum is not [...]

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My daughter, my…er…joy

May 31, 2009

Serena has been sneaking up on having a two-year-old temper. This afternoon, she pitched a ferocious wobbly, at the height of which she maliciously (yes, maliciously, with clear intent and an evil gleam in her eye) peed on a book in the middle of the living room floor because I would not let her use [...]

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The Shrinking of Treehorn

May 8, 2009

Serena took this book out of the library. I think she chose it because it was a nice shade of green and charmingly square. When we got it home, I noticed that the drawings were by Edward Gorey, a favorite artist of our entire family’s. We’ve been to visit his house on the Cape, and [...]

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Two Conversations with Rio

April 13, 2009

1. On the drive up to my mom’s yesterday, I speculated about what the Easter Bunny might have left for the kids. “Mama, you know the Easter Bunny is NOT REAL.” “Oh. Why do you say that?” I am not invested in her belief in fairy tale beings, but as far as I know she [...]

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Willpower

March 29, 2009

Rio’s favorite read these days is the Frog and Toad books, which I love because it was my favorite when I was her age. Right now, we are both loving the chapter called “Cookies”, in which Toad bakes far too many cookies, and he and Frog have to figure out a way to stop eating [...]

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