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Is It Just Me? – Staying Steady
Tuesday, November 30th, 2010 | 1 Comment
Just last week, I found a warning note in my mailbox alerting me that there have been a number of break-ins on my street. Both day and night, brash thieves have invaded homes where they steal belongings and frighten the occupants. One read more »
Is It Just Me? – Body & Soul
Tuesday, May 4th, 2010 | 0 Comments
Seven year-old Harrison and I have our deepest exchanges in the minutes before he falls asleep. It is then that my youngest son allows himself to be bathed in maternal kisses. It is then that it’s okay for him to read more »
Is It Just Me? – And Counting…
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010 | 0 Comments
On April first, my husband, Billy, and I celebrated our twenty-sixth wedding anniversary. Our kids, parents and other close relatives bestowed happy wishes and gifts. Billy made his usual observation: “not only have we been married twenty-six years, but we’ve read more »
Is It Just Me? – Sorry is the Lamest Word
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010 | 0 Comments
“I’m sorry.”
For what?
“For doing that bad thing.”
Which was what??
“Whatever you said it was.”
You don’t know, do you???
“Not specifically.”
And, you’re really not sorry, are you?
“I don’t want to be grounded.”
So, you’ll say anything.
“Pretty much.”
Have you had a variation of the above conversation? read more »
Is It Just Me? — The Bridge
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 | 0 Comments
This March, we are taking a break from our regular life. My kids will leave school and I will forgo this column I write for a couple of weeks. My daytime job, that of mother/diplomat/caretaker/insane asylum out-patient, will travel read more »
Is It Just Me – Listening to Our Cells
Saturday, February 20th, 2010 | 0 Comments
It was a Saturday morning in mid-February, and both my sons had the pallor of vampires and the energy levels of sloths. Charlie and Harrison had been fine all week at school, but this weekend morning they woke up sick. read more »
Is It Just Me – Standing Up
Friday, February 12th, 2010 | 0 Comments
“The kid ordered toast, not a bagel” snapped the unsavory server, her eyes rolling up to the ceiling.
“No. My son ordered a rye bagel” I said, tightly. We had endured this woman’s rudeness for the entire visit to our usual read more »
Is It Just Me – Thank-you, I mean it
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 | 3 Comments
Thank you. How many times each day do we say these words or encourage our children to say them? The sales clerk gives you change and a receipt. Thank you. A young woman waits and holds open the read more »
Is it Just Me? – Resolving to Be Here
Thursday, January 21st, 2010 | 0 Comments
During the December break, we convince ourselves to have a wonderful time even if it kills us. Worries about money, careers, grades and weight are tucked away in a mental safe which can’t be penetrated for a full two weeks. The padding read more »
Is It Just Me – Eye to Eye
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010 | 0 Comments
Charlie and I saw eye to eye for exactly six days this past September.
But, instead of the seventh day being a day of rest the way it is in Genesis, for my thirteen year-old son it was a day of growth the read more »
Is It Just Me – Happy Holy Daze
Friday, December 11th, 2009 | 0 Comments
Is it just me?
Or do thoughts of the forthcoming holiday break make you feel slightly queasy from too much anticipated ground turbulence in your house?
I’m aware that this time of year is supposed to bring out my inner Mother Theresa. I should read more »
Is It Just Me – Mutterings
Sunday, December 6th, 2009 | 0 Comments
Is it just me?
Or are you ever so agitated about an event, person or specific justice-challenged situation that you feel compelled to mutter about it in public? Do these grumblings ever grow in volume and clarity to the point at which read more »
Is It Just Me – Digging, Digging, Dug
Monday, November 30th, 2009 | 0 Comments
Hunched over the kitchen table with his shoulders glued to his ear-lobes, my seven year-old son, Harrison, dug for dinosaur fossils in a clay block that he’d received as a birthday party present. For three hours, I’d been inhaling red dust read more »
Is It Just Me? – The Fresh Start
Thursday, November 19th, 2009 | 1 Comment
“Jack was so mean to me. I HATE Grade One!”
“What happened?” I asked. My son, Harrison, and I were walking to the corner for hot chocolate after school. Well, I was walking and he was stomping.
“Jack told me I read more »
Is It Just Me? – Words
Friday, November 13th, 2009 | 0 Comments
Driving Charlie and Harrison home from school, I felt my patience splintering like a wooden spoon in a fresh carton of ice cream.
“You guys know the rules”, I said. “You can’t say a body part in public if it’s not one read more »
Is it Just Me? – Blessings In Disguise
Thursday, November 5th, 2009 | 0 Comments
Writer Robin Stone’s column, Is it Just Me? makes its debut at Connected Parenting today, with this piece about answering tough questions.
“Mommy, what does G-d look like?”
Six year-old Harrison and I lay in his bed watching the ceiling fan make its clockwise read more »
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