It started to creep up on me about a year and a half ago. Slow, yet steady; a lengthening shadow across my field of vision. There was a tickle of the familiar, a vague recognition–that feeling of grasping the colors of your dream with the tip of your consciousness in the first, tiny seconds of…
Tag: blogging
30 Days Has November
Every time I have a conference with my older son’s teacher, we spend 15 minutes skirting around words like ‘challenge’ and ‘motivate’. What it takes me a quarter of an hour to illustrate by saying things like, “Yes, he is a bright boy but as his pushy mother I know he can do a lot…
Every Day I Write The Book
My background is writing. It’s what I do. It is what I studied in school, it is how I soothe the demons, and though it is not how I identify myself to others, it is how I identify with myself. Adventures in parenting, observational skills and expat stories notwithstanding, one of the main reasons for…
The Evolution of a Blog (Happy Birthday)
If you have a child, know a child, or have ever met a child; if you’ve read a book or watched a movie that included one, you will recognize how much changes in that first year of life. That soft pile of flesh, so pliable and yielding at first, changes into a walking, talking being…
Wine and Cheese (Doodles) 