A few months ago my friend Margaret Roach gave away a cookbook on her site A Way to Garden. I…
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parenting journey
The parenting road doesn’t end, it just changes, until you look back and marvel at the distances covered and the transformations that occurred along the way. Newborns turn into kids with skinned knees, adolescents become college students far from home, and one day a grown son pulls out his credit card and offers to buy you dinner. I wouldn’t have traded any of it, not even the sleepless nights. Writing is a way of remembering. Read more about my parenting journey, or browse the archive of stories below.
Letting go, again
The lilacs bloomed this week, and tulips appeared like magic all through the front garden (it was quite a surprise…
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Happy Mother’s Day
Every year, I tell my sons what I’d like for Mother’s Day: a letter. Something written from the heart and…
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Simplicity Parenting and Books to Give Away
I can’t recall how many times a reader has written to say, “I wish I’d found your books years ago,…
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Perfect
I began writing my first book, “Mitten Strings for God,” the year Henry and Jack were eight and five. My…
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A small gift from the sea
It’s a long way — in both miles and mindset — from the silent morning sadhana at Kripalu to my…
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