For as long as I can remember I wanted to be a mom. I was absolutely convinced I could parent better than my mother. My father was the breadwinner — king of our small kingdom — and more into himself than raising the two kids he produced and the one he adopted. I became a … Continue reading Letting Go of Adult Kids
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Friday night on the short ride home from his Boy Scout meeting, my 11 yr old son was quiet and sullen. I asked him what was up. Had anything happened at the meeting that he wanted to talk about? I saw him looking at me from my rearview mirror, gauging how to tell me disappointing … Continue reading Boy Scouts of Faith-Based America
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2jYpkquscPut4Iozh90BCH?si=f63maePPSfGqBwzUN7CXnQ Got the call at 7:50 this morning and knew something was wrong. No one calls when I'm getting the kids ready for school unless it's bad news. And there was no possible way my 14 yr old son could have made it to school on his bike so fast. Could hardly hear the woman … Continue reading The Yin/Yang of Love
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6khB0mctgVj4qtz6ktl178?si=fD8GH1dfSyqKLEtr6Jbpdg I’ve been on the outside looking in since I was a little kid. Failing to assimilate, I worked at cultivating unique and different. After achieving this coveted perception, I no longer wish to possess it.Unique often translates into strange. And as the mother of a 10 and an 8 year old, I do not … Continue reading The Folly of Perception
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5xhZeYAutJNfWi5zt9soK6?si=4073fb0a27024069 Had a meltdown on my tween son when he asked, yet again, for an iPad at breakfast this morning. Before the iPad he wanted a laptop. He'd insisted he needed my old HP the moment I purchased my Toshiba, though he could give no reason why he had to have it, since he had a powerful … Continue reading On Being Cool
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2rdvNjUq0mF0A9VRVQhYMI?si=f4801e17fd9c4045 My son’s guitar teacher was freaking out the other day over the impending arrival of his first child. Beyond a healthy birth, he was consumed with anxiety over the care and feeding of an infant, all the way up through guiding his child through their teen years. As a parent of two tweens, I … Continue reading The Power of Love
