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Relationships

Amazing Family Dinner-Time Conversations

7:00 p.m. Dinner table. Elliot, age 8, on my left. Daniel, age 19, on my right. Martin, AKA Hubby, across from me. Supper tonight was a family favorite: steaks smothered in tomato and olive sauce served with pasta. After supper, we stay sitting around the table and chat for a while. Which is nice, right?… Continue reading Amazing Family Dinner-Time Conversations

Parenting

Kids, Vacation, and the Good Old days

Ok so here is my message in a bottle question, I am writing it down on this little scrap of laptop and tossing out into the ocean of internet. What's a mom to do? My teenage son did not want to come on vacation with us. Should I have insisted? The photo above is from… Continue reading Kids, Vacation, and the Good Old days

Relationships

Conversation with my husband

He is sitting at the kitchen table hunched over his laptop computer, in a position that makes me want to tell him to sit up straight. I am on the couch, sitting cross-legged, laptop on my lap, possibly in a similarly posture-wrecking position. I’ve been writing on and off for the last while, browsing the… Continue reading Conversation with my husband