Yesterday, I spent about 30 minutes of my work day in a live web chat talking about cheerleading with Varsity and The Motherhood. Oh, yes, I did. One – I was paid to participate and promote the talk beforehand via Twitter, etc. Two – I used to be a cheerleader and I loved it. I [...]
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Portrait of a Mother
She answered the door wearing neither makeup nor shoes. She wore a t-shirt and cut off denim shorts and a closely cropped haircut that was devoid of any styling product. She smiled as she opened her home to me and quietly invited me in. She seemed a little meek and unsure of how to greet [...]
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As the beautiful Suburban Kamikaze reminds us, plastic bins are the key to a well organized life. I have bins for shoes. Bins for pictures. Bins for receipts. Bins for clothes that each child has outgrown long before I’d hoped they would. Bins for clothes that have not been outgrown but have been painfully outworn [...]
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