I’m starting to I think I might have made up a good deal of my childhood memories, or at least built them up again from the bits and pieces I’m more sure are real. This is more present for me right now, in the deep summer which seems to do the hard work of memory making….
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Good morning! I’ve had peaches both for dinner last night and breakfast this morning. I’m very sticky. How about a few links for hot Thursday? Listening to this song. Thinking about families in other places. Dreaming about peaches in France. Sharing the milkweed with the monarchs. I’ve listened to this story a couple times now,…
salty pork
Hot, hot, hot. The summer has taken over. Not the lazy, unschooling, natural parenting kind of summer you might expect of me, but instead the driving to theater camp, the too-many backyard parties, the over and over up till 11 until the girls break down in tears mid afternoon and say, “I’m just so tired….
first of the month: talking to kids about sex
These are the things that I feel pretty sure about: 1. The more information kids have, the better. I learned about sex and puberty pretty early on, and I think it’s a credit to my mother that I made it through my teens without getting pregnant or sick. I knew how to say no,…