A mom and a stepmom share stories, ideas, friendship and family
Posted in Miscellaneous on Jan 31st, 2008
Kathy and I haven’t always been friends. We haven’t always thought of each other as sane or trustworthy.
Now we are friends. Now we do think of each other as sane and trustworthy.
How did we get from there to here?
We were talking one night last week over tea and crackers about showing a little more of [...]
Posted in Quotes on Jan 30th, 2008
“Let us put our minds together to see what life we can make for our children.” — Sitting Bull
Posted in Quotes on Jan 29th, 2008
“Confronting our feelings and giving them appropriate expression always takes strength, not weakness. It takes strength to acknowledge our anger, and sometimes more strength yet to curb the aggressive urges anger may bring and to channel them into nonviolent outlets. It takes strength to face our sadness and to grieve and to let our grief [...]
Posted in Links on Jan 29th, 2008
Contemplative Chaplain: And There Is Still Just One - “When you are an only child of parents who have divorced, even when the divorce was a good divorce, a healthy divorce, even when the divorce presented new life possibilities which allowed wonderful step-parents into your life who nurtured you far more than you ever could [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on Jan 27th, 2008
By Katherine Shirek Doughtie
Yes, I still belong to this blog. Jill has not created a clever marketing alter ego named Kathy and forgotten to post in her name. I still exist and I still, occasionally, can stay awake long enough at the end of the day to find time to write. Obviously [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on Jan 26th, 2008
Did you know that cellulite used to be considered beautiful? It was seen as a highly desirable sign of fertility.
I don’t know how true that really is, but I heard it in a book on tape a few weeks ago and I adopted it then and there as true enough.
Posted in Links on Jan 25th, 2008
Stepmother’s Milk: The Stepkid Shuffle - “Leaving is emotionally and physically disruptive. And goodbyes suck. . . . Have you ever returned from a trip on a Sunday night and dragged yourself into work the very next morning? Yuck, right? I’ve been in this situation and it’s draining, disorienting and it puts me in a [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on Jan 24th, 2008
(Okay, so that’s not really dirty laundry. It’s laundry in the rain. But that’s all you’re getting photo-wise.)
I read a comment on another blog (I wish I could find it again) about how there is a wave of new blogs coming out trying to make people feel guilty about not being friends with the mom [...]
Posted in Quotes on Jan 24th, 2008
“The possibilities that exist between two people, or among a group of people are a kind of alchemy. They are the most interesting thing in life…
It isn’t that to have an honorable relationship with you, I have to understand everything, or tell you everything at once, or that I can know, beforehand, everything I need [...]
Posted in Links on Jan 23rd, 2008
Woulda Coulda Shoulda: The tragedies of your rotten life - “Last night at dinner some of the food was TOUCHING, and they KNOW how you HATE that. Stew, schmew; they should know better. You were COMPLETELY justified in making those gagging noises and pretending to expire while everyone else was eating peacefully. Isn’t that what [...]
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