Mama’s Musings

Another one from the archives! 1999 published in The Wise Mother
 
            As I write this, my year old son Slim is falling asleep at my breast.  He is looking more and more grown-up all the time.  He is beginning to mimic everything we do, blowing kisses and throwing balls to his big sisters Arwen and [...]

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One from my archives! Back when I only half of my present gang.  April 1999  Published in The Wise Mother
 
            Too much to do!  My list runneth o’er!  My sweet baby, Slim, wakes up before I can make a dent in the list of things that absolutely must be done today.  Now, with the baby on [...]

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I once had a teenage boy say to me “You’re cool.  There aren’t too many cool moms.”
I wasn’t sure how to take that at the time or exactly why he felt that way.  Is it my propensity towards tie-die, bandannas, and Birkenstocks?  Or the fact that we could discuss issues of poverty and discrimination or the [...]

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