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Career Choice Mom
I’ve made a career choice. I’m going to be a Mother. That’s right, you read that correctly. You might think it’s out of my league, you might think I’m overly ambitious. You may wonder at my loftly aspiration. Because I’m planning on being a Damn Good Mother, at that. I’m going to give it my…
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Caring for the Dying
Several years ago, my husband came across a letter I had written when I lived and worked in a hospice care home called Enso House back in 2005. At the time, I was writing ‘back home’ to the monastery in Japan, telling the sangha there about my experience so far working at the hospice on…
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When Grey Comes to Visit
Here I am again. I haven’t written for sometime, partly because October was a slumpy month for me. My mood was slumpy. Not drastically dark, but veering towards grey. I tried various things to shake it. Chocolate, red wine, a hamburger (and considering I’ve been mostly vegan for nearly 2 years, this was a dramatic…
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Chasing the Perfect Birthday
My sweet girl will be seven soon. I felt myself get choked up over that fact while eating a bowl of oatmeal this morning. But the reason my throat got caught with tears in the middle of breakfast wasn’t about her getting older. It wasn’t because I felt overwhelmed with the passage of time or…
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Life Lessons from a 2 Year-Old
There are days when I want a break from everything. Like today, for example. When I want someone else to convince my two-year old to wear a diaper when we go out, because the resistance she puts up to it is LOUD, and I am out of creative ways to respond to her. And can…
Sparkle and Zest 