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Has the world gone insane? A “black” Friday indeed.

I’ll admit, we were at Sears Friday morning for Black Friday. We knew what we wanted, we found a great deal and we woke up insanely early Friday morning to go shopping. My husband and I don’t normally shop on…

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No More Toys!

“Do NOT throw those toys down onto the ground! You’ll break it” I said to my son in frustration. It was the third time he decided to throw down the special Transformers his grandpa had brought back from an international…

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My pre- post-racial birth certificate

On the eve of this historic election, I was reminded in a very personal way how far we have come as a country and as a society. I was copying my Michigan birth certificate (more on why below) when I…

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My Green Pregnancy

It’s been about three months since I’ve sorta fallen off the face of the planet. For the few times during the week I’ve managed to crawl over to my computer, I knocked off my work emails first and replied to…

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Love in the face of tragedy

NieNie, a wonderful mom blogger from Arizona, was recently in a terrible plane crash. A wife and young mother of four, she is in a chemically-induced coma, sustaining burns to over 80% of her body. Her husband is also in…

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News Media in a Toddler’s Eyes: Old White Guys

At BlogHer recently, I attended a session on op-ed writing and media training. Most of it was review, but the piece of the training that really shocked me were stats provided by Catherine Orenstein of the Op-Ed Project. She said…

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The Dream That You Wish Will Come True…Maybe

The other night while watching the Olympics I came to a realization. The Olympics are heartbreaking. Sure, the Games are exciting, unifying, inspiring. But more than anything, they tend to break my heart. I had just finished watching a women’s…

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Transformation of a princess

Something is happening to my daughter. That thing that no one warns you about when you have kids. Sure, we’d heard about stranger anxiety. Our mothers warned us about the terrible twos. And we all remember what we were like…

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My Dirty Little Secret

My palms are getting sweaty, my breath is becoming shallow, and my eyes dart from side to side. I quickly walk up to the merchandise and pick one off the shelf and bury it under the other groceries in my…

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A Mother’s Musings on July 4th

I should be honest. It’s kinda embarrassing, but I don’t think I’ve truly celebrated July 4th every year. Not on a personal level, in the true spirit of Independence Day. July 4th has mostly been a date on the calendar…

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I am a mother, “too happy to be comfortable”

“Too happy to be comfortable.” This is perhaps one of the loveliest phrases I’ve heard in connection with motherhood. I’m reading Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner, Pulitzer-prize winning writer, environmentalist and long-time Los Altos resident (please read his work,…

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My daughter’s first long summer and she doesn’t want to go to camp

My daughter is “graduating” from Kindergarten on Wednesday and so will begin her first official summer. Sure she’s had summer breaks in preschool, but I always signed her up for summer preschool. Before any type of school, she simply grew…

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