And you thought Ebola was scary?
While so many of us are caught up in the mass fear and media-driven hypochondria over the Ebola virus, I wanted to share some things you should actually be freaking out over: Just when you thought West...
View ArticleI lost my son and my holiday spirit in Kmart.
Maybe I didn’t actually lose sight of my son, maybe I lost sight of something else. But he was mad at me, that I know for sure. He was mad at me because I wouldn’t buy another bag of cheap Christmas...
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Your kids might be fighting again but your Facebook post is perfect.
Of course they are. You can hear their faint, muffled shrieks and cries from the second floor as you stand in the kitchen, half listening for the “real” screams but mostly ignoring the noise because...
View ArticleYou’re a Good Enough Mother.
I was up at 2am last night, unable to sleep and unwilling to fight it. Sometimes sleep happens and sometimes it doesn’t. And in these perfectly quiet moments of darkness, when I’m not sleepy enough...
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Best Friends Forever. Thanks Facebook.
Nestled in the corner of my cluttered basement, sitting on a pile of old books, magazines and scrapbooking supplies, I am momentarily distracted from cleaning my basement by a stack of old high school...
View Article“Why would you want to live in Aroostook County?”
They ask me, their faces creased in varied expressions of doubt and disapproval. “There’s nothing to do up there.” They continue on, as though telling me will make me believe it. “The County’s dead...
View ArticleWhen you can’t write about what you know.
Because you’re no longer sure you know what you’re doing. Because what you’ve always known is how to be a good mother to small children, how to wrangle them, squirming, in and out of diapers, how to...
View ArticleDownsizing my life, upsizing my joy
“Mum. Could you be any cornier?” “What.” “No, I’m serious. I can’t believe you just said that.” What. But it’s what I’m trying to say. I’m actually attempting to downsize all this stuff we’ve...
View ArticleThe season of letting go
And as the pumpkins sit, frostbitten and unnoticed, gradually losing their masterfully carved faces to eventual decomposition even in swiftly dropping temperatures, we empty the candy bowls, gather up...
View ArticleWhy is your Christmas tree still up?
Because it’s pretty. And because also it helps lessen the agonizing state of denial that totally consumes me from January 2nd until mud season (and for those of you not from Maine, “mud season” is the...
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