I’ve been frustrated and feeling sorry for myself lately, for no concrete reason but that dreams don’t look like they’ll be coming true any time soon. Hey, at least I have dreams, right? So I can’t afford to take the kid on vacation this year. At least I’ve saved enough to go on vacation, so […]
The KoE is whiny mush by the time 7PM comes around, but the family wanted to represent at the PTA meeting tonight, and the older grades were demonstrating the games they developed for the Sally Ride toy competition, and the KoE was abuzz and agog at the idea of Staying Up Late! Playing with the […]
I’m sorry, I’m having a very rough go of it at this very moment. I’m trying hard to take my own advice and breathe through the drama, knowing that pain and sadness are not permanent, and will be replaced by joy in good time. I wish the good times would hurry up! and hit me […]
One of the battles here at single mother headquarters is the battle for a pet. The kid hasn’t marshalled all his forces yet, so I can keep the upper hand for now. But he’s wearing down my defenses with his adorable and heartbreaking technique of bonding with toy animals. He’s got a fake ferret that […]
The King of Everything and I volunteered for a Service Day here in town, and met up with some great groups working together under the umbrella of Americorps to beautify a school in a rougher neighborhood in the city. The school’s playground backs onto an alley, and often, the gangs are recruiting from right there. […]
My thoughts tonight are with the mothers who lost their homes sixty years ago… and with the mothers who gained a homeland.
I am thinking of my sisters in my heart, the women who claimed me as their own when I lived in Sharjah. Women whose mothers’ mothers hid them down the well when the […]
We each of us harbor crazy dreams, hopes, wishes that you know in your sane moments can never come true. Often, the biggest mistake we make about people is imposing upon them what we see as their potential to become, rather than accepting the skin they are in, physically and metaphorically, at the present moment […]
I actually have a sweater–for me–on needles right now. Knitting needles. It’s a neck-down, hooded raglan with a nifty Celtic-ish design on the back. It’s a yoga sweater, and some day, I’ll study yoga, and have a lovely sweater to wear.
I’ve dabbled in needlepoint, latch-hooking, and a slew of other needle and fibre arts. I […]
He painted them himself. The one in the foreground is a galaxy. The one in the background is of a storm. I think they are absolutely magical.
My mother cut out the canvas and bound the placemats, then sealed them.
We switch them back and forth. It’s his turn tomorrow to get the storm one for […]
It has been a lovely day, grey skies and all. The KoE and I are busy doing housework and a little bit of detective work.
You see, someone apparently was in a desperate fix for Mother’s Day flowers, and helped him- or herself to the ones left at my gate yesterday. Thankfully, a neighbor stopped by […]
Solo Mother: All the responsibility. Half the time.
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