“You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us. And the world will live as one.” John Lennon  The last month my moods have been a unpredictable as the Northern California skies around me. One day, blazing blue skies, electric with possibilities and creativity; then the next–flat, gray, dismal… Read more

On Tuesday I introduced you to Jennifer, a mother in the final stretch of mothering and children in the house. Hindsight is rich with wisdom, and moms of high school and college students serve as that reminder to moms of young children, of how quickly the seasons of parenting change. Today, I give you Christie– one of the… Read more

Becoming a mother has brought me through the full range of human emotions. Laughter, tears, physical pleasure and pain, sleep deprivation, an enormous sense of pride and accomplishment, joy, triumph, and delight, as well as failure, insecurity, unworthiness, and a paralyzing sense of overwhelm. Nothing has ever stretched me so thin, brought me a fuller sense of elation, or… Read more

Before becoming a parent, I didn’t understand that while you can put a toddler in bed, you can’t actually force it to go to sleep. Even if said child is exhausted with eyes rolling back in its little head, the small human will cling to the waking state like a suicide jumper clinging to side of the building and… Read more

Go small, go simple, go now. Those are the words that have been ringing in my head ever since our little road trip to Oakland and the Strictly Sail Pacific boat show. Almost an oxymoron really. All those sleek, glossy lines of brand new production boats and a sea of Sperry Topsiders shuffling around the docks, can make… Read more