Ever Feel Like You’re Drowning In A Sea Of Shoulds?
I do… and I live on the beach so I should know from drowning. Almost every day I feel like my life has devolved into crossing off a list of things I have to get done, as opposed to things I feel like...
View ArticleAmerica The Expensive
I have lived in these United States for nigh on sixteen years next July, first in the New city of York, and then in the even newer City Of Angels. Coming from Australia, I was initially flabbergasted...
View ArticleThe Truth About Putting The Kids To Bed
And you know how much I love telling the truth. The ugly, sticky, messy beautiful truth, which for some reason we have grown so afraid of in this country. Sometimes I stumble accidentally on a topic so...
View ArticleI Made A Parenting “Pass”
I know I usually only report on the epic parenting fails, because there are so many to choose from. Yesterday we went shopping for sports equipment. While this is usually a “daddy” type activity that...
View ArticleYay I Have Lyne Disease! (sic)
I had a transcendent weekend. The children went on a trip with their father – it was to be a rollicking “dadventure” beginning with the Long Beach aquarium, with a (romantic) boat ride to Catalina, an...
View ArticleMy Kids Beat Me Up
But it was an accident. I’d hate to think there was such thing as your worst prejudice being confirmed, but every time those mini-males manage to injure me, accidentally or not my first thought is...
View ArticleHappy Lucky ’13
Well before the stroke of midnight it comes, the feeling that I’ve made a mess of my life. No matter how much I am grateful for, or what I have achieved in the past year, the people I’ve helped or...
View ArticleMy Kids Are Coping Scarily Well With The Separation
This morning was one of those rare, perfect bits of alchemy where we got the children ready for school in a choreographed piece of Disney magic. Even after one of the kids shat himself. “It’s a shart,”...
View ArticleOn Martin Luther King Day My Neighbor Called Me A C***
With absolutely no provocation – Happy Peace Day, everyone! My what a glorious and beautiful world we live in, it’s so easy to be optimistic and joyful when planet earth is full of people who just wish...
View ArticleI Worry
I worry about my kids. Then I worry that I don’t worry enough about them. I worry about how much I dislike parenting, but it might just be a general aversion to taking care of people. Something...
View ArticleMy Dog Wants To Do Playboy
But I won’t let her. I think 2 is way too young (that’s 14 in dog years.) I told her when she’s 2 and a half we can revisit it. She was pissed. She’s been posing all morning to show that she can do it....
View ArticleI Am A Love Addict
And not in the good way. The way for example my children need love, attention and affirmation. I am like a child – I cannot fill the empty hole inside me with anything. I have tried stuffing the hole...
View ArticleRadical Acceptance
Sometimes life makes you slow down or stop completely, and at the time you have no idea why. Like when people have chronic pain, or their loved ones die, or even they break a nail right after spending...
View ArticleFlight Or Flight: How A Puppy Can Strike Terror In The Hearts Of A Community
Recovery from this auto accident has been frustrating and uneven. One day I’m fine, and happily toddle off to start yoga again – gentle class, blankets, bolsters and blocks supporting every move, nice...
View ArticleEver Feel Like You’re Drowning In A Sea Of Shoulds?
I do… and I live on the beach so I should know from drowning. Almost every day I feel like my life has devolved into crossing off a list of things I have to get done, as opposed to things I feel like...
View ArticleI Worry
I worry about my kids. Then I worry that I don’t worry enough about them. I worry about how much I dislike parenting, but it might just be a general aversion to taking care of people. Something...
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