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My dear sister-in-law, apparent ex-blogger Nini and now mom-of-three, had a cute belief as a kid. She thought boys gulped and girls “gilped”. I am gilping.

Mary at Owlhaven tapped me for an April 2006 “Perfect Post Award” for The monster at the end. It’s about fear and sometimes consuming worry that strikes pregnant women […]

Brood

Aidan recently participated in a conference for young writers. Kindergartners through eighth-graders were invited to submit and read stories to their peers. It was her third year, her third commemorative t-shirt, but the first year I got mad.

Her story was about a stinky unicorn named Pewnicorn. Poor Pewnicorn is so wretchedly stinky her […]

It was worth the $1 he got, though

“This can’t be natural!”

—Our first-grader Ryley, while stressfully wiggling a very loose, nearly hanging-by-a-thread tooth.