[caption id="attachment_2291" align="aligncenter" width="225"] Celebrating buttoning her own shirt.[/caption] So there's a new thing in parenting now, that's topping "helicopter parenting". It's called "lawnmower parenting".…
Month: September 2018
This weekend at the writing retreat I attended, one of the exercises was to think about why we write. It's a question that I hadn't…
I went away this weekend. Three hours west, to the place where the southeast corner of Nebraska runs into the Missouri River. There's a town…
My three year old has charted her own course when it comes to growth and development. Early on it was pretty typical. She crawled at…
This last week, when spent some time thinking about this blog and why I do it, I found myself journaling about what this space actually…
If you had asked me when I started this blogging journey why I was doing it or what I had hoped to gain from it,…