Blogs about: Mattie Family
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“Babies”
I won’t beat around the bush here: I LOVE the movie “Babies.” Directed by Thomas Balmès, it follows the daily lives of four babies from very different culture, two from rural areas (… more →
The Grateful Life
"Babies"
wrote 5 months ago: I won’t beat around the bush here: I LOVE the movie “Babies.” Directed by Thomas B … more →
Vegan Food
wrote 5 months ago: I’ve been a vegetarian for a long time now, and I’d be the first to admit that I tend to … more →
Hiatus Redux
wrote 5 months ago: What’s it been, a thousand million days? No, just thirty or so? Seems like a lifetime. I … more →
Pause
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wrote 7 months ago: I’m sitting here with my coffee, not wanting to write this. See, I’m a fundamentally laz … more →
Mother and Son
wrote 8 months ago: Today was a quiet day. Michael was spending time with my father, building an electric guitar, and I … more →
Sleep
wrote 9 months ago: To understand just how grateful I am for sleep, you first need a bit of background: I’ve alway … more →
Breathing
wrote 9 months ago: Still breathing…and that’s a lot to be grateful for.Today Mattie and I saw the wreckage … more →
Movement
wrote 9 months ago: Shake the dust… We arrive home within minutes of each other – he gets there before I do, … more →
Song for a 5th Child // Ruth Hulbert Hamilton
wrote 11 months ago: This poem is painfully true. Every time Mattie smiles at me I see time slipping by, and I feel the i … more →
Baby, Father, Love
wrote 11 months ago: Fathers’ Day 2012, to my darling husband – the light of my life and gleam in my son … more →
First Knowing // Andrea Potos
wrote 11 months ago: That second day of kindergarten, I ditched while Miss Clemens bent at the sink, helping Peter Farley … more →
Sooner Than You Think // Author Unknown
wrote 11 months ago: NB: I can’t say that I particularly like the structure, or even the writing, of this, but I lo … more →
My Son the Man // Sharon Olds
wrote 11 months ago: Suddenly his shoulders get a lot wider, the way Houdini would expand his body while people were putt … more →
My son
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wrote 11 months ago: I’m going to make this short. Mattie fell into a drawer today and got a big gash on his forehe … more →
Confidence
wrote 1 year ago: Giving birth was the single most important learning event of my life. At no other time have I change … more →
Wonder, Redux
wrote 1 year ago: This was written on 9/9/2011. Today Michael quoted it to me. He couldn’t remember where he … more →
Twisted Heart
wrote 1 year ago: I read this piece by Mira over on Babble and was floored by it. It’s touching, in the way some … more →
Day 58: Pain Medication
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wrote 1 year ago: Today’s post has been difficult to write…partially because I’m worried about what … more →
Day 43: Sleep
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wrote 1 year ago: I’ve had a conflicted relationship with sleep since I can remember. As a child, I was afraid o … more →
