Monthly Archives: July 2007

Lots of food for thought but probably I won’t have time to sort through it, so just posting to let everyone know that we are going on a plane (!) out west (!) and then driving through the Rockies (!) … Continue reading →

Well, this morning I contemplated writing a line like this: I feel sure my mother will have to take me apart in some way for going back to full-time work, since that’s the choice she didn’t make. I thought it … Continue reading →

I think I want to talk about my mother a bit. My mother mostly stayed home with us: that is, she did daycare for extra money; she worked PT teaching one school year between my sister and I (from which … Continue reading →

I’m digging out my office a bit – yes I work there already, 15-20 hrs a week, 10 of which are nannied and therefore I am pretty much locked in there. And yet there is always a heap of things … Continue reading →

I took Noah to the zoo this morning, with that odd feeling I keep having that these are the Last Days of our little nirvana.  Which is a bit silly, since it’s not nirvana, and the zoo is open on weekends … Continue reading →

In line at the grocery store today my magazine was in the rack by the cash. I know enough about how this works to know that there are nefarious reasons, and yet, I had a little frisson of pleasure anyway. … Continue reading →

And, while I’m on a roll… Avril asks As a multiple, what does authenticity mean to you? I’m thinking beyond simply staying true to one viewpoint or one deeply held value. How can the system maintain authenticity to many different … Continue reading →

So at the meeting today my plan was to ask for the weekend to think it over, after making all my various demands. They offered me a good salary: not superfantabulous! but it will cover all the expenses of working … Continue reading →

One of the hardest things about all the therapy and work we have gone through is that it has been a lot about becoming our authentic selves. (Not a mommy- or daddy- pleasing self; not a living in fear of exposure … Continue reading →