All of you know that I haven’t exactly taken to the blogosphere like a duck to water. I don’t have a SmartPhone or do Twitter (yet). There are over two million Mommy bloggers on the web and some of them are even making a living at it, and a very few of them (ie, Heather Armstrong [...]
Entries Tagged as 'General'
The Writing Life in The Baby Cave
March 31st, 2011 No Comments
Tags: Her Circle Ezine · motherhood · Parenting · Writing
Burying A Dead Horse
December 16th, 2010 No Comments
The blind horse got loose on Thanksgiving eve. It was a steel-grey day, 4 pm and already twilight. I was reading to my girls on my mother’s couch, dizzy from a raging ear infection. Vertigo whirled the room so strangely I couldn’t lie down or I got bed-spins– like coming home drunk from a college [...]
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Go With the Flow
November 17th, 2010 No Comments
Oh yeah, life goes on. C. put a button up her nose and it got stuck. T. had to extract it with tweezers while I was teaching yoga (my favorite red eyebrow tweezers, in fact). A. had a pee accident in her bed yet again, after I’d forgotten to buy a waterproof mattress pad. Ducky [...]
Tags: Add new tag · mindfulness · Parenting · Shiva Rea · Thich Nat Han · Yoga
I Am Three, Hear Me Roar
October 26th, 2010 4 Comments
There are two kinds of mothers. Those who can calmly craft a homemade Halloween costume, wielding a hot glue gun like a calligraphy pen, and those who settle– whether in shame or resignation– for a store-bought get-up. For weeks, my youngest seemed content to be a Ladybug. We already had the Ladybug costume that Grannie [...]
Tags: Parenting · preschooler · three-year-old
Ruby Diamond Fairy
October 21st, 2010 1 Comment
Enchanted Halloween! Once again, I was a fairy. The Ruby-Diamond Fairy, to be precise, christened by my children. I love the transformative potential of Halloween, how even Moms can get out of their mundane, schlep-around identities and into something magical, sparkly and, dare I say it, sexy. C. was an Emily Fairy and A. was a [...]
Tags: Enchanted Halloween · fairy · Halloween
Arts & Craftsy Mama
October 6th, 2010 3 Comments
Some things come naturally to me: hiking up a mountain, say, or kicking up into a handstand. But hosting a playdate AND making Princess Headdresses for three small girls, this is not my natural maternal state. I would rather go out and dig in the garden, weed the flowerbeds, run in the woods. I get [...]
Tags: Amanda Soule · arts & crafts · Creativity · family · Halloween · Martha Stewart
Killing Beauty
September 28th, 2010 2 Comments
This isn’t some post-modern Keatsian philosophical musing, but a real story that happened in our family this weekend. Beauty is a chicken. Rather, she WAS a chicken. She and another hen, Snow White, were abandoned near our house in July, and the local Animal Control officer asked if we wanted to adopt them. At that [...]
Tags: Add new tag · chicken slaughter · omnivore's dilemma · vegetarianism
The Princess Who Saved Herself
September 15th, 2010 3 Comments
Once in awhile, you hear a new song, and it immediately becomes your anthem. When I was 12, it was “Time After Time,” by Cyndi Lauper. ”The song is so mellow and soothing. It is probably the story of my life,” I wrote (without a trace of irony) in my 6th grade journal. All through [...]
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Going to the Mat
September 14th, 2010 No Comments
Hurray! I just had an essay published about my college gym requirement (Yoga) in the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. Click here to read.
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