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the web
As a web-worker myself, I find myself doing this every day; working on the Internet. That’s my ‘web’ and the moniker of my company. Sometimes connectivity feels like…
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Category: Parenting
Creativity
Calling all Creators
Our children need our protection not infantilization. It’s time for creators to stop producing trite, dopamine-drippy, algorithmically-oriented content, and offer instead true stories that count. Like family origin…
Family
toney atone: my family goals
There are a few things I’ve been saying to my family, hoping they’ll see things I see as problems and make “us” feel better. No one has wanted…
Family
unsolicited something for ya
on Vulnerablity, Shame, and Energy Exchange Dear Young Adult, Last night you said that you felt I shamed you when I pointed out bad posture, or mimicked behaviors…
Body & Health
Survival is a fast car
On a recent talk the speaker asked her audience how many were “in survival mode.” One quarter of the hands went up.* I found this revelatory, not because…
Body & Health
“getting it” by being grounded
Hi T & O! Hey, you totally don’t want to hear a lecture from me, but I have so much to tell you before I get too old,…
Culture
Black Hat Bots & Mad Gratitude
I have 15 minutes to write this. Black Hat Part Some hack-bot came through this website and inserted viagra ads into some of my paragraphs. It’s not dangerous…
Best of Mommess
Stretched Thin – Christmas Wishes
“I’m stretched too thin!” I’m pretty sure I’ve been saying this to anyone who would listen, including playing this complaint on internal repeat for the last two months.…
For My Kids
delaborate
Odin: so I was working on my narrative at school, and it was long, so I decided to delaborate on the spaghetti. . #Odinisms #ProudMom #CoinedIt!
Family
make all the same mistakes I did
There’s been so much discontent between us, eldest kid. Maybe this is from me trying to shield you from mistakes, preventing you from falling on your face, and…
Culture
Beyond Belief
I don’t go to church, my kids don’t either. The other day I realized that even though I don’t engage with organized religion anymore, that there are many…
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How to take a mental health day
skip to steps Today my 8 year old son and I took a mental health day. This was at my suggestion after he’d run into a frustration-styled brick…