It was midnight and the girl was in our room again, this time to say she couldn’t get her music to stop playing. I’d lost count of how many times she got up in the four hours since we’d put the kids to bed. My body had imposed a 30-second fatigue delay – the time…

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Today is Five-Minute Friday, hosted by The Gypsy Mama. She gives a writing prompt and we just write, no editing, for five minutes. Then post. This week the prompt was “Grow.” *** She was so small. The laws said that a baby can’t face forward in a car-seat until they weigh 20 pounds, and most…

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I got the bright idea to make a video blog this afternoon, when two of my three children were at school. If that burst of inspiration had only exploded about four hours earlier, I’d have been home alone. But if I’d have done that, you’d have a much less unmasked vlog to watch. Did you…

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I watched this video today and had to share it as a follow-up to yesterday’s post on how to disagree well and the conversations in the comments there. It should go without saying that I disagree that religion is a product of evolution, but the data about the personality traits and values of liberals and…

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I’ve made a lot of mistakes when discussing, debating, and disagreeing with people. I’ve failed to listen well, hurt feelings, and flat-out falsely accused them. I’m not proud of that. I want to learn from those mistakes and do better, so I started thinking last week about what those mistakes have taught me. I share them here…

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The email from Lindsey asking if I’d go to Bolivia. The speed and ease with which my husband would say yes. The joy it would bring me to go to extremes to get my passport in time (including driving four hours to a passport agency to have it processed in 24 hours). The willingness of…

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