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 [...]
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Arts & Craftsy Mama
October 6th, 2010 3 Comments
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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Dad Life Rap
September 8th, 2010 2 Comments
This one goes out to all you Dads out there. “This is how we do it. 24-7. 365. Check me.” Seriously, guys, this vid by Church On The Move Tulsa is worth watching (for Moms too). I laugh every time I see it:
“Am I Jewish?”
September 1st, 2010 No Comments
Good news! I just had an essay published on The Washington Post.com. It’s on their Religion Blog, On Faith. If you’re curious about things Jewish or want to read some inter-generational family history, feel free to give it a read. Click here to read “Am I Jewish?”
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Feels Like The Last Time
August 16th, 2010 6 Comments
My baby is turning 3. The fact of her birthday slams into my hot sunny summer like a dump truck full of depression. Why am I not celebrating this milestone– the final 12 months of The Baby Cave, which, I’ve been told, lasts till the youngest is 4? Why am I not running full-tilt to [...]
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Beauty Shop Hotline on VPR
July 26th, 2010 No Comments
Click HERE to listen to my latest commentary on Vermont Public Radio. You can read a longer version on the next blog post, too.
Tags: beauty · Max and Ruby · vpr
Magentic Poetry for Mothers
July 2nd, 2010 1 Comment
I’m vacuuming the kitchen floor when I see the word “WOMB” staring up at me amidst the cereal scum. It’s a piece of the “MOTHERHOOD MAGNETIC POETRY KIT” that I got for Christmas. The kit should have been a great fit, since I’m a mother and a (former) poet. But somehow I haven’t been inspired [...]
Tags: magnetic poetry · motherhood · Sylvia Plath
Preschool Graduation
June 24th, 2010 1 Comment
Fancy dresses? CHECK Fancy tights? CHECK Party shoes? CHECK Potluck dish, plus picnic blanket, plates and utensils? CHECK Two hyper & overtired girls and one frazzled mom? CHECK Then it’s time for the annual preschool Graduation Ceremony in the school garden, complete with adorable kid singing, ribbons bestowed on each child and a MayPole dance! [...]
Tags: preschooler · sugar · sugar kitty