I’m trying to survive puberty again. This time as a parent.
It all began on a mundane weeknight. She had just played in her first ballgame of the season. Supper was over and she had settled in at the dining room table for a game of chess with her daddy. I was in another room entertaining a puppy and a boy when I heard the...“Am I a Yankee?” Thoughts from a Georgia girl growing up in Maine
If you’ve been following me, you know that I moved to Maine from Georgia a little over 4 years ago. 2 months after the birth of our son. Our oldest was about to turn 4. This spring, she turned 8. Our daughter has now lived half of her life in Maine and...Finding beauty in the weeds… and a little parenting insight, too.
This is what happens when you go on vacation and leave your yard unattended for a couple of weeks: Weeds. Not just a few little dandelions popping up here and there. Giant, thick, deep-rooted weeds. Spiky, nasty weeds. Weeds that are too prickly to pull with your...
I’m in a book!
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