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Blog postI recently returned from one of those glorious, soul-nourishing visits with friends at a rustic Maine lake retreat. There were ten of us, including a potter, baker, furniture maker, history professor, math genius, and a cat named Smitty. I’m guessing that our free-ranging dinner conversation was typical of the sort you’d hear among such people in similar settings: Many salient and non-valid points were made on various topics of local and global interest, friendly disagreements erupted and, al
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Blog postDo you know where your favorite lipstick is? For the first time in years I can say with utter confidence that mine is exactly where I last put it. Now that my nest is newly emptied, no teenager has just swiped it and then left it in her purse/friend’s car/friend-of-a-friend’s car/Bonnaroo tent/ her Dad’s house/the bathroom of a Boeing 737. I miss my college kids terribly. But it makes me feel better to celebrate the little ways that life is easier without them underfoot.
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Blog postThe night before my firstborn left for his freshman year of college he strolled into the kitchen with his mp3 player blasting — one earbud was tucked into his left ear and the other was wedged in his bellybutton. I gave him the requisite maternal smile and eye roll, but felt a pang — his goofy boy humor would no longer be part of my everyday life. Sure, he’d be back — but not for good. The next week I commiserated over lunch with my friend Kumi, whose son had also just left. Both of us had ma
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Blog post“Don’t freak out but I’m getting my bellybutton pierced after work. Just letting you know.”
That’s the text my 18-year-old daughter sent me from her summer job at a frozen yogurt shop, while I was in our living room, aka: College-Packing Central. I read her message while surrounded by heaps of laundry, half-filled duffel bags and the move-in information packet from the university whose dorm she and her mountain of stuff would somehow be squeezing into the following week.
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Blog postMy daughter’s elegant e-bay-purchased prom dress hangs in her bedroom. On Facebook, other moms are posting pics of their high school seniors wearing big smiles and Tshirts announcing their college choices. My gmail box is filled with notices from the high school urging me to buy ribbons, sunglasses and seat cushions to “help support the class of 2013” or to remember important dates: the Prom, the Vocal Concert, the Awards Program, Commencement. But my favorite email is the one that’s al
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Blog postWhen a new mother feels her partner agrees on how to raise their baby, not only the child benefits–she does, too. That’s the big takeaway from the latest study to come out of Kent State’s ongoing “Baby Transitions in Marital Exchanges” research (aka Baby T.I.M.E.). In the latest work, doctoral candidate Brian Don and other researchers interviewed 77 mostly middle-class and married heterosexual couples twice, at four and nine months after the birth of their first baby. Women who initiall
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Blog post5/1/13
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Blog postI have a 19 year old son. If you took a random survey of his friends I don’t think they would describe him much differently from the character sketch offered by the shocked friends of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who, as I write this, is the subject of a massive manhunt in a shut-down Boston. Those who know Dzhokhar paint him as friendly, well-adjusted, laid-back, sociable, smart, a good student. And all the while, he and his brother were allegedly planning mass murder. His mother insists that the poli
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Blog postNew research on babies’ brain patterns during sleep adds to the evidence that parents who argue frequently are stressing out their infants. Plenty of research has already indicated that extremely stressful experiences in early life, such as physical abuse or being raised in an institution, affect how the brain processes information. This new study of 20 babies suggests that the more “moderate” stress of having parents who engage in frequent verbal arguments may similarly influence how a baby’
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Blog postDo good wives make bad mothers? How’s that for a loaded question! In 2013, what qualities make a woman a “good wife” or a “good mother” anyway?
The opposite question, “do good moms make bad wives?” was debated a while back on the Huff Post divorce page where Jackie Morgan MacDougall argued that those perfect moms–with their talent for all things craftsy and their trigger-happy willingness to volunteer at school–are not showing the love to their husbands. (How she knows thi
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