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Rev It Up

( Notes )

While we were getting into the car to head for swimming lessons this weekend, my daughter, Audrey, asked me, “When did you start doing Mama Says?” I explained to her that I’d sent out playgroup schedules with notes on them beginning about the time she was born, but hadn’t actually given the project a […]

Feed a Cold

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The teachers are dropping like Parma bowling pins at our children’s elementary school. Many of the students — displaying a remarkable lack of empathy — love this, since when the teacher’s home sick the class is split up and distributed among the other classrooms. It’s similar to the fun they get from a tornado […]

Perspective

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This past weekend, my family “got away.” We took a little trip to Michigan to teach our children to cross-country ski.
Now, usually we follow a regular routine whenever we go on a trip of any length. First, we get an idea about where we would like to go. Then, we discuss — often for […]

A Vacancy at the Wombat Hotel

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For at least the past year, and possibly longer, my two children have been constructing what I can only describe as a comic soap opera of literally epic proportions.
It began with what was to most casual observers a sort of annoying pretend game of which the most obvious feature was a slightly cloying use […]

“No good deed goes unpunished.” — Clare Booth Luce

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Yesterday, I had a series of experiences that, upon reflection, seemed connected like beads on a thread:
• My niece related to me a story about an incident that had just occurred at a gas station, during which a man she described as “looking clean cut,” asked her to let him pay for her gas on […]