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Motherhood – Is It Worth It?
“So is it worth it?” asks my colleague somewhat skeptically from across the cafeteria table. We’re sitting on bar stools – her – as obliviously as someone would in their natural habitat, me – painfully...
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Fun Vs. Fear in Parenting
Last week we had a few of 5 Year Old’s friends over for a viewing party hosted by Netflix of their new children’s show, All Hail King Julien. One thing led to another and before you knew it my...
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Parental Advice – Yea or Nay?
Last week I put vanity on hold while I shot this selfie to help a friend promote an extremely important campaign. If you were struggling this week with _____ (fill in the blank: sleep, the perpetual...
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Is There Such a Thing as Being Overly Compassionate? #1000Speak
A friend who knows me like the back of her hand once told me that I had an uncanny ability verging on talent to see the tragic in every situation. To clarify, she wasn’t accusing me of being especially...
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Mourning from Afar
My birthday is on March 16th, a day before St. Patrick’s Day. This year for the first time I will be missing some of the people who celebrated it with me most of my life. (This post is dedicated to...
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F in Parenting
It was raining when the bus was about to pull out of the station and I ran to catch it. It wasn’t right away that I had heard the voice behind me and seconds later realized that the words were directed...
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Some Truths About Lies
Blatant Lies See this? When I studied Art History I first became exposed to the term “provenance”. Provenance in Art is like the CV of an art work. It documents its movements, relocations and history...
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What the Hallmark Card Didn’t Say
Do you ever feel like the card you’ve selected to mark a special event doesn’t begin to capture your true feelings about its significance? Have you ever felt that it maybe even contradicts them by...
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A Cry for Help
Every so often I’ll send a cry for help and watch in awe how it makes its way to Latvia, Israel, The United States and England and all the way to my neighbours around the corner. I cry: help?! and a...
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Creating a Bond with Your Child – A Post in Pictures
I believe that nostalgia plays a big part in the bond we create with our children. In moving countries and continents I’ve eliminated the shared geography basis. In having boys, some further shared...
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The Feeling of Her Hand
To my grandma on the eve of what would have been her ninety fourth birthday. I don’t know what it is about bedtime. Maybe it’s that quiet time of day that welcomes contemplation. A time for withdrawing...
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Parental Advice – Yea or Nay?
Last week I put vanity on hold while I shot this selfie to help a friend promote an extremely important campaign. If you were struggling this week with _____ (fill in the blank: sleep, the perpetual...
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Is There Such a Thing as Being Overly Compassionate? #1000Speak
A friend who knows me like the back of her hand once told me that I had an uncanny ability verging on talent to see the tragic in every situation. To clarify, she wasn’t accusing me of being especially...
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Mourning from Afar
My birthday is on March 16th, a day before St. Patrick’s Day. This year for the first time I will be missing some of the people who celebrated it with me most of my life. (This post is dedicated to...
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F in Parenting
It was raining when the bus was about to pull out of the station and I ran to catch it. It wasn’t right away that I had heard the voice behind me and seconds later realized that the words were directed...
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Some Truths About Lies
Blatant Lies See this? When I studied Art History I first became exposed to the term “provenance”. Provenance in Art is like the CV of an art work. It documents its movements, relocations and history...
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What the Hallmark Card Didn’t Say
Do you ever feel like the card you’ve selected to mark a special event doesn’t begin to capture your true feelings about its significance? Have you ever felt that it maybe even contradicts them by...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Cry for Help
Every so often I’ll send a cry for help and watch in awe how it makes its way to Latvia, Israel, The United States and England and all the way to my neighbours around the corner. I cry: help?! and a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Creating a Bond with Your Child – A Post in Pictures
I believe that nostalgia plays a big part in the bond we create with our children. In moving countries and continents I’ve eliminated the shared geography basis. In having boys, some further shared...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Feeling of Her Hand
To my grandma on the eve of what would have been her ninety fourth birthday. I don’t know what it is about bedtime. Maybe it’s that quiet time of day that welcomes contemplation. A time for withdrawing...
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