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Category Archives: Parenting
Call Me Kristen Bell.
Ok, so I spoiled the whole snake hook in the last post. I thought about dragging it out, but I just didn’t have the heart. Truth is, I expected to see snakes everywhere we went in the Amazon for the … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Awareness, Beautiful places, Beauty, Blog, Daily Observations, Honest observations on many things, Humor, Mothers, Musings, Natural beauty, Nature, Parenting, summer vacation, Teens, travel, Wonderful Things, Writing
Tagged Adventure, Explorama, Explorama Canopy Walk, Kristen Bell, Lima, Mira Flores, Peru, pink dolphins, San Isidro, Sloths, Tales from the Motherland, the Amazon, travel, vacations, Yagua tribe
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Is That a Snake? Or Are You Just Happy To See Me?
From the comfort of home, it’s especially hard to believe we were in the Amazon this summer. None of the documentaries, none of the things I read beforehand, nothing prepared me for the shear wonder and sensory shift I’d feel … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Aging, Awareness, Beautiful places, Beauty, Blog, blogs, Humor, Life, Musings, My world, Natural beauty, Nature, Parenting, Sarcasm, Summer, travel, Women, Writing
Tagged Adventure, Explorama, ExplorNapo, Family Vacation, Fears, Humor, Peru, Snakes, Tales from the Motherland, Tarantulas, the Amazon, travel
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If You Visit My House, And I Offer You Cheez Its… Pass
This is a brief, and I mean brief, detour from the current series of blog posts on our trip to Peru. I’ve missed writing about other things, and frankly the universe has been so busy f—ing me royally, that I … Continue reading
Posted in Awareness, Blog, Daily Observations, Honest observations on many things, Humor, Life, Musings, My world, Parenting, Personal change, Summer, Women's issues, Writing
Tagged Challenge, Cheez Its, Depression, Eating, Musings, personal change, Tales from the Motherland, the Universe
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Machu, The Inca Dog…
This is part 4 of our Trip to Peru. If you missed the previous two post, go back now and read them… Go ahead, this will wait. When we left off, we had two hung-over “kids,” two parents who’d found … Continue reading
Posted in Awareness, Beautiful places, Honest observations on many things, Humor, Mothers, Musings, My world, Parenting, Personal change, summer vacation, Teens, travel, Women's issues, Writing
Tagged Aguas Calientes, blogs, Dogs, Inca Trail, Machu Picchu, Musings, Personal challenges, Peru, Tales from the Motherland, travel, Trekking
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After The Bug
Tomorrow we depart for Peru and my stomach is churning. Thankfully, it’s just nerves… now. The stomach bug that laid me low, low, low last weekend has mostly passed. This does seem to be a dastardly bug that lingers for … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Awareness, Beautiful places, Blog, Daily Observations, Honest observations on many things, Humor, Life, Musings, My world, Parenting, Summer, Teens, travel, Writing
Tagged Captain Jack's, Dan & Whit's, Dartmouth, Family reunions, Fireflies, Jenga, Machu Picchu, Paleo diet, Tales from the Motherland, the Amazon, travel, Vermont
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Sh^t!
It’s hard to think straight right now. What I want to write and what comes out are two different things, as my brain whirrs indiscriminately. One minute I’m focused and on task, the next I can’t think of what to … Continue reading
Posted in Awareness, Beautiful places, Blog, Blogging, Daily Observations, Honest observations on many things, Life, Musings, My world, Parenting, Summer, Teens, travel, Women's issues, Writing
Tagged college students return home, Kids living at home, shit, stress, Summer, Tales from the Motherland, transitions, travel
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Lessons in Loss and How The U.N. Really Did Dissolve… Into Puddles.
Note to new readers: Our family took in two foreign exchange students last August for the entire school year. Denmark is a 17 yr old girl. China is a 16 yr old boy. The U.S. is our 15 yr old son (Little … Continue reading
Posted in Awareness, Blog, Daily Observations, Foreign exchange students, High School, Honest observations on many things, Humor, Life, Mothers, Music, Musings, My world, Parenting, Personal change, Teens, traveling alone, Women's issues, Wonderful Things
Tagged Foreign exchange students, growth, high school, Huntington's Disease, mothers, parenting, personal change, Tales from the Motherland, teenagers
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The Middle… Dissolving the U.N. and Other Updates.
Note to new readers: Our family took in two foreign exchange students last August for the entire school year. Denmark is a 17 yr old girl. China is a 16 yr old boy. The U.S. is our 15 yr old son (Little … Continue reading
A Bunch of Kids Made Me Cry…
Note to new readers: Our family took in two foreign exchange students this year. Denmark is a 17 yr old girl. China is a 16 yr old boy. The U.S. is our 15 yr old son (Little Man). Israel, when home, is … Continue reading
Posted in Awareness, Blog, Daily Observations, Foreign exchange students, Freshly Pressed, getting published, Honest observations on many things, Humor, Life, Mothers, Music, Musings, My world, Parenting, Personal change, Teens, The U.N., travel, Women, Writing
Tagged blogging, Freshly Pressed, getting published, Jewish, parenting, Tales from the Motherland, Teens, travel, writing
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TALES FROM THE MOTHERLAND 