Nothing prepares you to be a mother. I don’t care who you are, how much experience you have with children or how many books you’ve read. Motherhood is something you have to experience to understand the sheer perplexities of the title. When G, who is 5, put his arm through a plate glass door in […]
Guster Love
My husband and I went to see Guster at the newly re-opened State Theatre in Portland, Maine on Wednesday evening. I think it was our 7th or 8th time seeing Guster live. (I’ve actually lost count.) The funny thing is that every time we see Guster, we seem to act like teenagers. (We are in […]
Six creative ideas for preserving kids' school papers and art projects
Ever since G started kindergarten, I have been overwhelmed with papers and artwork. He has a folder that goes home with him each day, and it seems like it is constantly stuffed to the brim with worksheets, notices and art projects. Not wanting to throw anything away, I initially started to keep everything in a […]
You can't get there from here.
So, I’m going to a retreat for work tomorrow. It’s at a board member’s house on Little Sebago Lake. Should be nice, though I hate going anywhere west in Maine due to the lack of an east-west highway in the state. I mapped out the route from Brunswick. Here’s what it looks like: It’s true […]
Left-handed, right-brained and misunderstood
As I get older and move further along in my career in public communications, I am realizing more and more how very right-brained I am. I’m a lefty, so I tend to do things a bit backwards. I also think differently. (Or so it seems to me.) I get frustrated when I’m in a meeting […]
How not to get my vote.
Election time is in full effect right now. While they may just be mid-term elections, there are some pretty important people and items to vote on next month. I was visited by two local candidates running for office this past weekend. Both made impressions on me, and I was able to decide exactly who I […]
