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Our Snow Peeps…

Posted in Autumn Wilder, Nature Love on November 29, 2006 | 6 Comments »

Mama, Dada & Baby

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Snow…

Posted in Autumn Wilder, Nature Love, Photo Love, tagged on November 29, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

…falling on Autumn.

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This week you can find me…

Posted in Writer Mama on November 28, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

as “The Mama Politic” over at mamazine.com
(for the open-minded only please.)

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Mama Pangs

Posted in Learning Mama on November 28, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Today I wanted to put Autumn back inside of me to protect her from the entire world – well the entire word mostly meaning me. Today I fought with my husband in front of Autumn (bad!) I was too sick and just bored of playing “animals” – her most favorite game.
It was so [...]

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Hmmm. Thanksgiving.

Posted in Making Things, Reader Mama on November 26, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Read No Thanks to Thanksgiving by Robert Jensen. (This is what kept running through my head as I suffered through a prayer for the pilgrims while high on NyQuil at a mandatory Thanksgiving.)

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A First Thanksgiving

Posted in Writer Mama on November 22, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

She walks into the room and hugs me hello. We weren’t expecting her, my father’s mother, my grandmother, my big sister’s step-grandmother but the only grand we have left in our family. This holiday season is her first without her husband of fifty years. I feel her ache through my chest as [...]

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Alfie Kohn – READ IT!!!

Posted in Learning Mama, Teacher Mama, tagged , on November 15, 2006 | 1 Comment »

One of the best parenting/teaching articles around:
“Five Reasons to Stop Saying ‘Good Job!’”, Young Children, September 2001

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Do we really want “good” girls?

Posted in Learning Mama, Writer Mama, tagged on November 11, 2006 | 1 Comment »

Getting “the Good” OUT Of “the Girl”
Main Entry: 1good: of a favorable character or tendency.
The other day in the middle of a knock-down drag-out over who-knows-what, my three year old daughter yelled (complete with “talk to the hand” gestures) “Stop it mama! Don’t do that to me! I don’t like it!” and [...]

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and our voices were heard…

Posted in Art Love, Making a Difference, Parenthood is Political, tagged on November 10, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Nikki McClure – Oly. WA

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The ultimate cure for depression (and it doesn’t even need to come in pill form.)

Posted in Parenthood is Political, tagged , on November 9, 2006 | 2 Comments »

Democrats win the house.
Democrats win the senate.
A woman, for the first time, becomes speaker of the house.
Rumsfeld slithers away with his tail between his legs.
Bush grovels and takes the fall.
Am I stuck in a beautiful dream?
Forget the kids – “I’m the Happiest Mama on the block!”
Never underestimate the power of the people to get pissed [...]

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