A mom and a stepmom share stories, ideas, friendship and family
Posted in Quotes on Feb 16th, 2008
May All Beings Be Safe From Inner and Outer Harm
May All Beings Be Happy and Peaceful
May All Beings Be Healthy
May All Beings Live With Ease of Well-Being
May All Beings Awaken and Rest in Freedom
And…
May the fruits of our practice benefit all beings and the earth.
– Lovingkindness meditation, by way of My Inner Edge
Posted in Books on Feb 16th, 2008
The 312 Best Things About Being a Stepmom
by Cynthia L. Copeland
This little book is whimsical, comforting and — surprisingly — full of bits of wisdom. It looks like it’s going to be a funny book, and it is, but it’s more substantial than it looks. There are sections for new stepmoms, custodial stepmoms, stepmoms to [...]
When I was little and I got sick, my mom would tuck me into my bed or under blankets on the couch and give me a bell so I could ring for her when I needed her. My mom’s bell had a stained glass handle and lived on the bookcase when everyone was healthy. Mine [...]
Posted in Links on Feb 15th, 2008
Peter Ehrlich: Children Bridge Divorce’s War Zone - “Watch any nature program starring a mother bear and her cubs. Then picture yourself walking into the frame with the intention of approaching her babies. You’re not walking out unscathed. That’s motherhood. Unlike male bears, men are programmed to care for and defend their children as [...]
Posted in Links on Feb 13th, 2008
Typical Momma: Help Wanted - “Unless you’ve experienced it, you can’t possibly understand the stress, loneliness, and sadness that goes hand in hand with single parenthood. . . . It doesn’t matter if you are mom or dad. If you are alone parenting, at some point, the weight of the world is sitting on your [...]
Gerald Durrell’s description of the challenges involved in feeding zoo animals reminds me just a little bit of dinner at our house:
“[You] have to cater for their individual likes and dislikes, which vary enormously. I have known a rodent which, refusing all normal rodent food — such as fruit, bread, vegetables — lived for three [...]
Posted in Links on Feb 12th, 2008
She who laughs, lasts: how the change came about - “I never told her or ex-husband what I was doing, but the communication and feelings between us changed a lot (or my perception did, at least) when I changed.” (more)
fMhLisa on Feminist Mormon Housewives: I “know” . . . - “So it turns out that [...]
Posted in Peacemaking, Perspectives, Quotes on Feb 11th, 2008
“All appears to change when we change.” — Henri Amiel
I didn’t always know Kathy the way I know her now. In the second half of our interview at Continuing the Stepparenting Journey, I told Karon that Kathy is “flexible, warm, open, willing to keep showing up and trying, and willing to start over and over [...]
Posted in Links on Feb 11th, 2008
Check out the second half of our joint interview with Karon Goodman at Continuing the Stepparenting Journey.
Posted in Miscellaneous on Feb 10th, 2008
By Katherine Shirek Doughtie
There’s a word that popped out at me in one of the comments recently, and I realized that I had not yet shared one of my favorite phrases with this community:
Expectations are premeditated resentments.
When I first heard this phrase it immediately struck home. Most problems within relationships, I firmly believe, arise [...]
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