The Family Dinner
At both of my sons’ annual checkups, our pediatrician asked me the same question: “Do you have family dinners together?” At first I thought this was a coded question about the latest episode of...
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Creative Space
A few months ago, my husband bought me a book called Creative Confidence by Tom Kelley and David Kelley, heads of Stanford’s Design School, or d.school as it’s called. Despite the fact that I...
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The Business Trip
A couple of weeks ago, I went on a business trip. As a double entrepreneur (co-founder of family / brick-layer of words), there’s nothing new about that. I usually go on two business trips a year....
View ArticleThe Circumstance Of Pomp
A couple of days ago, my oldest son graduated from preschool. I enjoyed a lovely commencement speech and sang along with the kids, “My life is a circle! A never-ending circle!” It was a totally...
View ArticleNaked and Afraid
One of my new favorite TV shows is “Naked and Afraid,” the survival show where one man and one woman must survive in the wilderness without clothes, food or water for 21 days. I like it for a lot of...
View ArticleHow To Find Your Sense of Humor
1. Determine if it is even missing. Do the whoopee cushion litmus test. 2. Try to remember when you last had it. New York, 2002, that place on Union Square? 3. Smash your funny bone on the car...
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Motherhood Broke My Body
Here we are, winter break, a time to really kick back and enjoy the beauty of February. For all of you on the East Coast or other bleak, frigid places, my condolences. Today, I have written a piece...
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Heeled
Over the past three years, my femininity has suffered the slings and arrows of great misfortune. I’ve been silent and stalwart as per the Finnish code of conduct, but the time has come to speak...
View ArticleWhy Did The Writer Cross the Road?
Because there was a word on the other side. (Or was there? Put your reading glasses on. Stop! Go back! Something dangerous is coming! False alarm, it was only the Parents Association volunteer sign-up...
View ArticleSeemed Like A Good Idea At the Time
Welcome to a swell little blog hop where a bunch of my writer friends and I explore the theme “Seemed Like A Good Idea At the Time!” Fun, right? I mean, whose life isn’t chock full of shit ideas that...
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