Tag Archives: raising kids

Icy Day: Essay, Photos, Fun

Posted on January 26, 2013 by

I don’t have much time to write this before the natives get restless and someone needs…. (5 minutes later)…as I was saying, I am completely outnumbered. Here is how it started… I was working away on my laptop at the … Continue reading →

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Shared Custody

Posted on December 28, 2012 by

We traded them in the parking lot.  But you can’t really call it a trade.  It isn’t an exchange.  It is more like a promise that once you hand them over that they will be given back.  And it only … Continue reading →

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First Time for Everything

Posted on March 24, 2012 by

It is raining.  My last 3 posts have had to do with rain.  I’m all wet.  A soggy doggy waiting to be let into the warm house at the moment.  Funny!  But as always, it appears that I need to … Continue reading →

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Singled Out

Posted on March 5, 2012 by

Time travel.  That is what being a single parent with shared custody is like on the weeks in between.  You get to see, literally, what it will be like to not have kids living with you any longer, as if … Continue reading →

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Her, Him and the Book

Posted on February 26, 2012 by

He is pounding out riffs on his guitar.  A 45 year old Gibson my mother got from a man who used to paddle his canoe standing up.  On the flat sections of the James or Staunton in Virginia, he guided … Continue reading →

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Inside a-MAZE-ing

Posted on February 22, 2012 by

Today we were on a blank field of dirt.  A public place.  A place where people just walk across on their way to other places.  Sometimes kids run there.  Sometimes people lay down a blanket and have a picnic.  It … Continue reading →

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Strata of Freedom

Posted on January 27, 2012 by

Freedom that you have lost, makes you realize you never had it.  You end up learning that what you called “freedom” is a name that you gave to the times when what you dearly wanted, aligned with what life graciously … Continue reading →

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There’s A Beanbag in the Kitchen

Posted on January 11, 2012 by

(Image above is not for reuse or reproduction…but can be clicked on for enlargement) When I recall speaking my wedding vows in May of 1995, words like “shared custody” and “single parent” were not concepts I had ever considered.   … Continue reading →

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