On ‘This Is Why’

I titled Monday’s guest-post “This Is Why,” (If you haven’t read it yet, please do so. I promise it’s worth your time. Read it here) and it occurs to me I never alluded to the title in the post. I think that is worth revisiting. There were so many things that struck me about L’s […]

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Guest Post: This Is Why

ED. NOTE: My blogging career began with a guest post at Diary of a Mom. That came about after I sent an email to Jess in response to one of her posts, and she read it and said she wanted to expose her readers to it. Saturday night, an amazing story arrived in my email. […]

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Progress vs. Development

Yesterday was the first day of school for our family. We made the kids pose for the obligatory photo and then sent our newly minted seventh- and eight-graders off to middle school. We’ve been at this school thing for a while now. Counting Ryan’s years in special services preschool, yesterday was his twelfth first day […]

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Chasing Cars

I’m a sap. I admit it. You need evidence? The song “Chasing Cars” by Snow Patrol always makes me cry. The song is about, I suspect, young love. About wanting to put yourself out there and tell someone how you feel about them but being afraid to do so. But that’s not what it means […]

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Island Time

This morning, I made my train by about 45 seconds, after a twenty-minute walk. In other words, I timed it perfectly. When I get off the train on which I am writing this post, I will walk uptown in New York, mostly on the edge of the streets, because, well, the sidewalks just move too […]

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