My youngest brother is eleven and one-half years younger than I am. Given where our birthdays fell, he started kindergarten the same month I started college. I’ve written before how he took me for show and tell over my Christmas break when he was in kindergarten, and I got upstaged […]
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Best Wishes to My Son and Daughter-in-Law on Their Wedding
Yesterday my son married his long-time girlfriend in a small and lovely ceremony in New York. So I’ve had weddings on my mind for many weeks. I can’t help but compare their situation to my own. My son and his wife have been together for many years; my husband and […]
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Remembering the Old House: My Son’s Perspective
While he was visiting recently, my son posted a series of photos on Instagram with his memories of the house he grew up in. I took screenshots of his Instagram posts, asked his permission to put them on this blog, he agreed, so here they are. He had a child’s […]
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Remembering the Old House When It Was New: Wallpapers
On a spur-of-the-moment Fourth of July visit, my son appointed himself my assignments editor for this blog and requested a post about what our current house looked like when we moved in. He was two-and-a-half at that time and has only vague memories of the home we lived in before […]
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To the Boss on Father’s Day
In an earlier post, I told one of my favorite stories about my husband’s role as father—when he acted out a Batman and Robin book with our son. Here’s another favorite story, which happened not too long after our son’s Batman and Robin phase. Our son was about four or […]
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The Story That Wrote Itself: An Epic Fail by Amazon
Every so often, something happens in real life that makes a good story. There is plot, there is conflict, there are characters. That happened to me last week. The characters were my daughter, her brother, and me. The conflict will be revealed if you read this post. I’ve mentioned before […]
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More Treasures: Decluttering My Son’s Room
I’ve discovered that my son is more sentimental about the past than my daughter. That doesn’t really surprise me, despite gender stereotypes. He has always been a thoughtful kid, and he is (or at least, was) a “Feeling” type on the Myers-Briggs scale for decision making. When I involved my […]
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Why I Write—It’s Not (Much) About the Money
It’s the middle of tax preparation season, a time of year I hate. I am still amazed that when my father died on January 5, 2015, he already had his 2014 tax information pulled together. Even now that my husband and I use an accountant, it takes me weeks of […]
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I’ve written before that my children taught me many lessons about diversity as they grew up (see here and here). This post is the story of another time I learned something from my son about diversity. This occasion happened within a few months of my son’s third birthday. Exactly when […]
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My Son’s First Birthday Party
Today my son turns thirty-seven. As I’ve been going through boxes, trying to declutter, I found some pictures of his first birthday party. Obviously, I would never throw these pictures out. In fact, I find it very hard to throw out any pictures. Finding these snapshots completely stopped my decluttering […]
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