Posts Tagged: motherhood

Conversations in the Minivan

posted on 04/24/2014

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A little conversation in the minivan (Vaneschwitz!) with my almost 5-year old on the drive to preschool this morning: Him: I have this button that gives me happy thoughts and this button that makes me go all crazy, and then a safety button that is only for emergencies. Which one should I press? Me: Umm… […]

A Fan Letter to Kristen Anderson Lopez and Robert Lopez

posted on 04/11/2014

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Dear Kris and Bobby – [Can I call you that? Too familiar? Mr. and Mrs. Lopez? Kristen and Bob?]. How about… Dear friends – See, I feel like we’re friends. You, me, my two little boys, Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Josh Gad… we hang out every single day on the way to preschool, on the […]

Graduating from Parenting Basic (a.k.a Officially Going Over the Edge)

posted on 03/12/2014

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Before you have kids, people will tell you that parenting will change your life, and push you to your limits. Especially the parents of young children, who will grab your arm in the grocery store or at parties and hiss out warnings, as though they’ve escaped temporarily from an institution and want to make sure […]

Name My Minivan

posted on 03/06/2014

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Does your car have a name? Mine usually do. Cars are important to me – they symbolize freedom and loud music, time to think and time to talk, and so much more. Whether it’s writer’s block or depression or a baby who refuses to nap, for me the answer can often be found in a […]

Vanity Wins in the End?

posted on 02/27/2014

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We have an enormous, steep staircase at our house that goes from the upstairs landing to the front door. It was one of the first things that attracted me to this house when we bought it a year ago, so lovely and open, with hardwood steps and iron rails. It didn’t occur to me then […]

SERIOUSLY Stranger Than Fiction (Parts One and Two)

posted on 03/23/2012

Part One: Prayer I’ll be honest: prayer has never been a big thing for me. I spent most of my formative years as a staunch agnostic (yes, that probably is an oxymoron — decidedly undecided). For many more years I was a kind of spiritual wanderer, searching for a home. Now that I’m happily settled […]

Super Mommy and the Amazing Choo-Choo Car

posted on 03/28/2011

Until yesterday, I’d been away from the keyboard in almost every way for the last week. I barely managed to keep up with critical e-mails, much less to find time to blog or work on my novel. (Isn’t it funny that I feel like a pretentious ass saying ‘work on my novel,’ even though that’s […]

Mommy’s Writing Process

posted on 03/08/2011

Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience. ~Thoreau Okay, sure. I’m on board. I found this quote while looking for some motivation since I have been feeling […]

Trying to Get the TV to Babysit, But It Shows Up Late and Talks on the Phone the Whole Time…

posted on 10/18/2010

Don’t use the TV as a babysitter. This is one of those rules I always hear thrown around about parenthood. Actually, come to think of it, I hear it less often as a rule and more often as a derisive example of bad parenting that people desperately want to avoid. It’s usually something like, “I […]