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Tastes Like Somebody Loves You!
Each photograph showed a smiling child, alone in the foreground of an after-school activity: ballet lesson, soccer practice, etc. The slogan said, “Tastes Like Somebody Loves You!” It was an ad...
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When You Care Enough to Send the Very Best
This article is part of my Tastes Like Somebody Loves You! series. My son was 12 days old the first time he received a package with his name computer-printed on the shipping label. “What did you...
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My Secret Journey
This is just a little story from my life. I can’t think of a good reason to post it, except that it keeps tugging on the corner of my mind and wanting to be told. I hope that somehow, it makes a...
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Life-sized
Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another, they are not cute. They are life-sized. –Margaret Atwood Last spring, when Nicholas was 3 years 5 months old, I found a picture of...
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My Opinion of Homosexuality in Twelve Words
God is Love. God is Good. Love is Good. Love is Love. If that’s too succinct for you, here is another writer who says the same thing, so beautifully, in many more words! Posted in Sex, Society
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Why aren’t we married?
Three years ago, Daniel and I were interviewed by Redbook magazine for an article called “The Changing Shape of the American Family” which profiled several different family structures. The...
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Mama, you happy?
One reason I’m glad I did so much writing about my early motherhood experiences is that, just a few years later, I’ve forgotten some of the stages my child passed through, the stages that seemed to be...
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Our Neighborhood Public School Works for Us!
Today is my son’s last day of kindergarten! This has been his first year in public school, and we are very pleased with our neighborhood public school, Pittsburgh Colfax. It’s a great example of how...
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Bullying: an article I wrote, and three I don’t have to write
Although I am discussing my work here, the point of view is my own, and this is not an official statement of the Pittsburgh Youth Study. As the data manager of a long-term research study, I recently...
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How to get more out of Communion
I feel kind of silly posting a tip for religious fulfillment as if it were just another tip for better living, but I did learn this from a bishop (so it’s sort of official!) and it really has made a...
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Planning, Parenting, and Perfection
Welcome to the December 2013 Carnival of Natural Parenting: The More Things Change . . . This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by Code Name: Mama and...
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My Favorite Love Song
I’m not very romantic. A lot of the gooey sentiments expressed around Valentine’s Day send me into fits of critical thinking. I’m kind of like this. But I am in love with Daniel, and have been for...
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The Barb Curlee Memorial Bookmark
Barb Curlee was my friend. She died last year, of cancer, after fewer years than she deserved. Barb and I met at church, where we eventually served on the vestry together during three difficult years...
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My Father Taught Me How to Be a Working Mother
When I was born, my mother quit her paying job so she could be home with me. She did not take another job until I was almost twelve years old. I resumed working outside the home when each of my...
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Is Your Pussyhat Keeping Someone Warm?
Photo by Joeff Davis from Pittsburgh City Paper. Click photo to read the article “Pittsburghers pledge to continue fighting after women’s march.” In photographs of last Saturday’s women’s marches in...
View ArticlePrincess X and The Husband’s Secret Love Languages [book reviews]
Here's a sprightly introduction to my reviews of the books I read in the past month. The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty There are multiple husbands with multiple secrets in this twisty story, which...
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I wrote a short review of The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman, but I have more to say about this book. The author is a marriage counselor whose experience with clients led him to identify 5 distinct...
View ArticleThe Tree of Life in the City of Steel
Three weeks ago, a man drove into my neighborhood, stormed into a synagogue, murdered eleven people, and shot and wounded several others. Well, that's old news. Why I am I still talking about it now,...
View ArticleSpring Flowers and Ex-Boyfriends
This is something I've been thinking about all through this strange springtime when, despite being home so much more than normal, we are in fact allowed to go outside, to walk all over everywhere, to...
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