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Category Archives: Women’s issues
Finally a Diagnosis! (Living as an Ernie in a Bert world)
A friend posted a wonderful article today that really touched a chord for me. Finally, some answers. And be sure to click on some of these links for some real Muppet high jinx and fun. After years of trying to … Continue reading
Nursing My Broken Heart…
If you’ve read this blog long enough, you know I’m unstable. You would have predicted this post, and you can now gloat. It was inevitable. I am supposed to be shopping: enjoying a solo day in the city, time to … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Awareness, blogs, Daily Observations, Honest observations on many things, Life, Mothers, Musings, My world, Parenting, Personal change, Women, Women's issues, Writing
Tagged Inter-faith families, Israel, Jewish conversion, Judaism, Letting go of our children, loss, Musings, Orthodox Judaism, Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies, parenting, personal change, self-awareness, Tales from the Motherland
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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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No Pain, No G… Wait, Is That An Option?
Note: This is part 2 of our amazing trip to Peru. If you haven’t read part one, go back and dot that! Then, join me as I stagger up the Salkantay trail, en route to Machu Picchu. These posts are … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Awareness, Beautiful places, Beauty, Blogging, Daily Observations, Honest observations on many things, Life, Musings, My world, Natural beauty, Nature, Personal change, summer vacation, travel, Women's issues, Wonderful Things, Writing
Tagged Beauty, Challenging myself, Machu Picchu, nature, Personal, Peru, Tales from the Motherland, The Andes, travel, Trekking Salkantay
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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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Things That Bump Me in the Night.
I don’t sleep well. It’s something I’ve been aware of for a very long time, but lately I see that it takes a real toll. I have a friend who’s been pointing out the health benefits of good sleep, for … Continue reading
Call Me Prissy… Butt 2.
Note #1 to readers: This was originally posted on August 27, 2011, not long after I’d begun blogging. Strangely enough, this post has had an amazing life. In it’s first weeks on line it got relatively slow hits, or views. Steady, … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Awareness, Beauty, Blog, Daily Observations, Freshly Pressed, Honest observations on many things, Humor, Musings, Women, Women's issues, Writing, Yoga
Tagged advertising, Beavis and Butthead, butts, fashion, Humor, parenting, sarcasm, sexualization of children, Tales from the Motherland, Teens, Thongs
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Fifty Shades of Humiliation… at Costco.
WARNING: Kids, my kids (adopted or birthed), do not read this one! Do not read it. Trust me, it’s embarrassing enough without you thinking of fifty new ways that your mom is not who you thought she was. Best to … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Awareness, Blog, blogs, Ego, getting published, Honest observations on many things, Humor, Life, Musings, My world, Parenting, Sarcasm, The U.N., Women, Women's issues, Writing
Tagged Books, Costco, Fifty Shades of Grey, getting published, humiliation, reading, sex, sexy writing, Tales from the Motherland, writing
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