Feminism | Parenting | Teaching | Women's Issues

Gotta Slow Down!

I feel like I’ve been sick for-ever!  And I don’t like it.  I don’t think.  No, I don’t like it. Except… I can remember being a new mom and wishing I could have a horrible illness.  Not one that would make me feel really bad.  Just one bad enough that I’d have to be hospitalized […]

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Grief and Loss As Spring Turns To Summer

June is hard for me. As the season changes and the weather brightens, I find myself every year in a bit of a funk. My dad died in June, the day before Father’s Day, fourteen years ago, and I still grieve his loss. We all know, Americans don’t do death well, and I am an […]

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Stop! Hold On. Stay In Control.

If parenting teaches you anything, it is that you have control over exactly nothing. Like writing, for instance. I had been writing a post about Wonder Woman—the new one, the old ones and myself. I had a great start. About a page and a half. Then I remembered I was a Mom. Or, rather, I […]

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