Laylee got out of bed the other night and told me, “I can’t sleep because there’s a noise in my room and it’s distressing me.”
She was truly distressed by the sound of the pipes creaking or the frogs chirping or possibly the sound of being alone. Although I don’t suffer from these same fears [...]
Today is Blog for Choice Day and posts are popping up everywhere in support of Roe v. Wade and a woman’s right to choose.
The labels that fly around show the biases of those who wield them. I could be called “pro-life”, “anti-abortion”, “anti-choice”, “crazy conservative religious wacko” or any number of names due to the [...]
Boomama has started a fund for Kelli who is in need of a kidney transplant. If you have a spare minute and a dollar fifty from your couch cushions, go over and help her out. Just click on the picture to read more about what you can do to help.
This weekend I went to a one day LDS women’s conference in Tacoma. Speakers and musicians came together to uplift, enlighten, entice us to buy their merchandise and charge $16 for a sandwich. I told Laylee I was going to a class to learn how to be a better mommy. The info was certainly presented. [...]
How can she complain about being fat? I weigh twice as much as she does. She gets a 3 from the judges. I get at least a 5.I may be having trouble in my marriage, but at least my husband doesn’t yell at me in public. I have nothing to complain about. I can only [...]
Where have you gone, little sailboat? Every day I would drive by your house, a small piece of wreckage, seemingly washed far ashore in our little section of suburbia. The tall grass lapped against the peeling paint of your ancient grey-blue mariner’s hideaway. There you floated on the sea of grass, next to an old [...]
How do I regain innocence in a world where ignorance is no longer an option?
My motherhood is my renewed connection with all that is good in the world, and my magnifying glass over all that is frightening and wrong. My children are the hope that makes tomorrow unquestionably worthwhile.
I find it fitting that my post [...]
And they will. They’ll lie through their teeth. It’s considered wrong to speak ill of the dead and a person’s death brings all kinds of healing and magical forgetfulness dust.
When Aunt J was dying, she looked over the wonderful things that were going to be said about her, picked out a specific item and said, [...]
Betty Smith paints with words, talented beyond my limited means to express. As I read this book, I ask myself over and over again the question – WHY HAS NO ONE MADE ME READ THIS BOOK BEFORE?
I’m sure Betty would say that a person cannot be forced to read a book but must discover it [...]
»
