Last year, we let Rowan and Kestrel go to Nana and Grandpa Allen’s for a week. Without us. It was a huge step for me, as a mother, to let my babies go, even to people who I knew were going to take fabulous care of them. But I also recognized that it was time [...]
Archive for the tag 'Family'
August 5 2010
Thank You, Judge Vaughn Walker
I’m actually sitting here crying. Proposition 8, California’s infamous hate law, has been declared unconstitutional. This means so many good things. First, for me, is that I believe in marriage. Deeply. I think that if two people actually choose to swim upstream against the constant steady running stream of forces that try to rip a [...]
July 23 2010
Family at the End
Last night, my dear friend Walter‘s mother, Liz, passed away. She was, as he, his father, and his sister all said, “a kick in the pants.” I’d met her a few times over the years, at the spectacular bridgebuilding event known as “Walter’s Birthday Party,” where he’d invite a bunch of random people to his [...]
July 21 2010
Best Family Blog Ever
I know that BlogHer and Technorati and lots of other places have lots of criteria by which they rate blogs. I know that a gazillion and a half people have opinions about the best parenting and family blogs. Me? I think that Well, Yeah is the best. Period. Hands down, far and away, the best [...]
July 13 2010
Missing Charlie
Today is the one year anniversary of the last day I ever saw my friend Charlie. She had the biggest heart of anyone we’ve ever met. As one of our marina compatriots said, “every time you ran into Charlie on the dock, you came away feeling uplifted. She had something good to say about everyone, [...]
July 11 2010
Velveeta of Grief
As the folks who read my other blog know, I’m writing a book about the process of turning your back on the American definition of success, and doing something else entirely. I wrote a bunch of stuff for the book that I’m now editing back out, for one reason or another (like, I was freaking [...]
June 30 2010
Walking in the Park
No big deal. Just a walk on a day when everyone needed to be outside.
June 28 2010
Aurora’s Two!
We decided to keep Little Miss Northern Light’s second birthday fairly low-key. I know that a lot of parents make other choices, and that’s totally fine. Considering that all three of our children’s birthdays are jammed together over a little less than two months that also happen to include Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Fourth of [...]
December 23 2009
Her First Word
I mentioned the other day that Aurora is starting to talk up a storm, and someone asked me what her first word actually was. It does my heart good, after two prior attempts at gender-neutrality that failed utterly, to let everyone know that Aurora’s first official word was: Yup. Her word was “truck.” Just the [...]
December 20 2009
A Marina Holiday
Yesterday was the Marina holiday party. It’s like that, when you have lots of chaos in your life; you have to wait for some sort of external motivation to do the decoration thing. Otherwise, your brain is saying “oh goodness, that looks and sounds like more work…” So. Considering that we live on a boat, [...]
December 7 2009
Grins
I was recently told that I haven’t been posting enough pics of the kids. D’oh! I also realized I haven’t cleaned out the camera in, oh, a stupid long time. So, here’s a pic from earlier in the year, when the weather was warmer.
August 5 2009
Kestrel’s New Haircut
Kestrel decided he wanted his hair cut. He was serious. For over two months, he badgered me about getting it done, and I stalled, not only because I wanted to make sure that was really what he wanted, but also because I loved, loved, loved his golden curls, and the way they made him look [...]
July 26 2009
Swine Flu Vaccines, and Kids
I don’t think of myself as an alarmist. I try very, very hard, especially when something bothers me in that kind of pressure-on-the-sternum kind of way, to sit back, and apply logic to the problem, to vanquish the boogeyman through sheer force of thought. But friends, this H1N1 vaccination program, and the attendant “planning” has [...]
July 5 2009
Nutmilk Revolution
A fellow Foodlabber thought that I tirade I’d had a few years back was worthy of reposting, so I thought I’d let you know it was there. http://ecowahm.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/finding-the-time-for-a-nutmilk-revolution/
