Let’s Start a Movement!

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxGZNNNSDCE&feature=player_embedded] Four.Years.Go. Now imagine the possibilities! There’s so much blogging, facebooking, texting,  emailing, tweeting, and direct messaging going on these days that I barely know where information is coming from anymore. At first I noticed the title had Nonviolence and Birth Canal in it and I thought that I had somehow been sent the message […]

URGENTLY NEEDED: a mom’s RE-creation myth

Leila turned 5 on the weekend. She kept asking me when the kids would get here for her Princess and Witch party, because she would still be four until then. “So, now you’re still four?” I asked, the morning of her birthday. Funny, I remembered her being born around 6 a.m. Whoops Mom, going into […]

grief, loss and transformation

  i love this life. I do. But there are times, there are things that we must, must face. we must face them head on and we must learn from them. Two years, ago, when Mitch and I lost our babe girl Tya, I would never have thought that something good could come of this. […]

“Mom, are you a teenager?”

Teenagers.

They’re a real mystery to Leila. Who’s to blame? Shaggy and his Mystery, Inc. van? The Archie comics she lugs around but can’t read yet, looking at the pictures and inventing her own stories?

Kindergarten jitters

So here we are, propelling rapidly towards Spring Park School and Leila’s first day of school. The Yoga Moms (my very amazing woman friends I met when in prenatal yoga class  five years ago) are already planning on canceling work for the day, dropping the kids off at school, and having a long, leisurely lunch […]