My part, His story

The boy and I have taken to reading together at night. It started out as a bribe--I've been bound and determined since before they were born that they will read C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia, and they will love them as I have loved them. Of all the books I've read in my life, these have been the …

Ageless

M: Is J.K. Rowling still alive? Me: Oh yeah. She just wrote a book for grown-ups. K: But she must be really old. Me: Actually she was pretty young when she started the Harry Potter series. I bet she's in her forties*. M: When did she first write them? Me: Well, I think I was …

Unsqueezed

Back in December, I happened to come home with a book called Unsqueezed:Springing Free from Skinny Jeans, Nose Jobs, Highlights and Stilettos by Margot Starbuck. It came home via my wise and wonderful sister, after we had a couple of discussions about the difficulty of having a healthy body image in sunny Southern California. See, …

Ménage à trois

This post, like the other ones on courage, happiness, and memory, was inspired by Momalom’s Five for Ten. If you want to be inspired, too, check out the latest post here. And that latest topic? Lust.   I'm no relationship guru, but I couldn't help but go where most of us go when lust gets mentioned. …

Today’s Parenting Strategy: Non-parenting

Forty-five minutes into K's nap--a very quiet, uneventful forty-five minutes--she calls me into her room. Surprised, I go in to become even more surprised. She's still in her bed, but she's now surrounded by about twenty different books. Naptime clearly does not mean the same thing to her as it does to me. "This book …

Vampire detox, anyone?

And I emerge from the Twilight saga at last. It's hard to believe how many pages of frivolous text I've managed to consume in the last week. And it's painful to accept that I can never seem to read quality literature that voraciously. But it was a nice break from reality.My only recommendation? Stop at …

The Missing Message

The current bedtime (or, really, any time when we're the least bit still) favorite is Shel Silverstein's The Missing Piece. I have a love-hate relationship with Shel Silverstein (and, as an aside, have you ever seen the picture on the back of The Giving Tree? Because it's beyond love-hate into frightening. I should know; he's …