Painting advice please? Oops, too late! How about parenting advice? Too late again for that…at least in this instance… I needed painting advice because I had missed a crucial piece of parenting advice. I’d like to share it here so that no one else may suffer the same mistake: Do not allow your three year […]
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Practice makes imperfect
June 9th, 2004 · 1 Comment
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Some things are better left unsaid
June 6th, 2004 · 1 Comment
In high school I bagged groceries at a Safeway store. I confess, sometimes, to pass the time, when I wasn’t determining the geometry of how items best fit into bags (we were trained with a method: boxes first on the sides…) I might try to imagine what the customer was going to do with all […]
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Why I like clay
June 6th, 2004 · 2 Comments
Through Lisa Williams I found a link to Knitting, playing musical instruments good for post traumatic stress says UK psychologist . I wonder if this therapy applies to cookie-baking too. Sure, the chocolate and margarine appeal to my anxiety, that temptation to escape into sugar and fat. Yet I find when I am feeling stressed […]
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Creatures of choice
June 3rd, 2004 · 2 Comments
My children are teaching me about choice. Choice isn’t a concept I grew up having and living. Life to me felt forced. Deprived. Dead-end. I had to do A. I must become B. When I decided not to be C, I precipitated a disaster. But when my 21-month-old toddler wakes up every morning, the first […]
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Waking up on Wednesday morning
June 3rd, 2004 · Comments Off on Waking up on Wednesday morning
I like waking up on Wednesday mornings. Tuesday nights we, along with our neighbors, as weekly ritual, scurry in our driveways and position our trash for collection. We carry the blue recycle bins filled with glass, paper and cans to the sidewalk and pull the cans on their wheels from the garage to the curb. […]
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