Category Archives: Parenthood

The Post Listen to Your Mother Post

Photo at Listen to Your Mother show 2013 via Jennifer Liv Photography

Tweet Last Thursday for the first time in my life I stood on a stage as a WRITER and “performed” an essay in front of around 500 people. And I survived! My heart was pounding in my chest as the two fantastic cast members ahead of me went up one by one. Soon it was…

First Rehearsal: Listen to Your Mother

LTYM Collage

Tweet I’m a little too good at keeping my world small and simple. It’s a control thing. I suffer from the need for that– for the sense, however false, that I have a handle on all the spinning plates, that nothing will blindside me. I’ve always been like that, even before I had kids. Whatever…

Life in a Jar: Inspiration Over Fear

Irena Sendler, 1944. Photo via Lowell Milken Center.

Tweet In Hebrew, Holocaust Remembrance Day is called Yom Hashoah. It falls on the Hebrew date of the 27th of Nisan, marking the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. (The date, of course, changes year to year in the Gregorian calendar.) This year Yom Hashoah begins at sundown on April 7th. I wasn’t necessarily planning…

A Truth, a Tip, and a Find

3 Things for Mom

Tweet This week I’m over at a very cool blog called 3 Things for Mom where each day a different blogger offers a “truth,” a “tip,” and a “find.” I’m following some big shoes so I hope it’s received well over there! My truth deals with what I consider the essential key to good friendship….

This is Ten

Lindsey Mead

Tweet We are now at the final installment of the This is Childhood series with the thoughtful Lindsey Mead’s observations of a ten-year-old. Hard to believe that ten weeks went by so quickly. I know that Lindsey and anyone else with a ten-year-old would say the same for ten years! Lindsey often discusses her struggle with…