Materfamilias Writes

Adjustments — Clocks and Toddlers and Nanas Heading Home. . .

Adjustments — Clocks and Toddlers and Nanas Heading Home. . .

My son and daughter-in-law are on their long flight home as I write, as their daughter sleeps an artificial hour longer this morning thanks to Daylight Savings Time. Sadly, the little chat she and I…

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Here and There — and a Few Thoughts about the Distance Between Them

Here and There — and a Few Thoughts about the Distance Between Them

I completely forgot about this post I drafted over two weeks ago, and I hope you won’t mind its belated appearance here. It was such a struggle to write, somehow, that I’m unwilling to simply…

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January Reading

January Reading

In January last year, I wrote that I wanted to write here more regularly, and that I thought a way to do that would be to post as I was reading a book rather than…

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Home and Away and Why I Travel: Guess What?

Home and Away and Why I Travel: Guess What?

Want to play a guessing game? I’m easing gradually off my couch, away from the box of kleenexes and the packet of cough drops, moving slowly into the year. Some stock-taking is in order (I…

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Other Places, Here. . . . Travel and Home, Paris in my mind’s eye. . .

Other Places, Here. . . . Travel and Home, Paris in my mind’s eye. . .

We have been plunged so completely and wonderfully and satisfyingly and exhaustingly back into family life in our new home that I’ve scarcely had a moment to think about my ten weeks away. Yet as…

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