Rachel

Rachel contribute to the site because, with all the negativity and fear being broadcast these days, everyone could use a reminder of the wonder and joy that is always around us, if we only take the time and make the effort to see it.

Responding With Emotion

Being a stay at home mom is the hardest thing I’ve ever done. I don’t know if it’s just me (there’s no way it can be just me), but something that doesn’t seem like it should be so emotionally, mentally and physically exhausting just is. Big time. There are parents out there who make it look […]

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The Take Away Game

Remember Pollyanna, the eternally optimistic heroine of book and screen? I watched the Hailey Mills version as a child many times, and one thing I still think of from the movie is her “glad game”, a game which involved finding something to be glad about in everything, even her own (temporary) paralysis. While the glad

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Sickness And Health

It seems inevitable with young children that someone will get sick over the holidays. In fact, with one in pre-school and the other in a pre-pre-school play group, my family is pretty much some kind of sick from October to March. This December was no different, and we spent Christmas and New Year’s Eve snuggled

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My Stroke of Insight

One of the perks of having a mother who works at the library is that her house always has a surplus of books in it. She checks out anything interesting that passes across her desk, and she brings home plenty of donated or extra books for visitors to peruse. I was leafing through a stack

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Shaping Our Dreams

When our dreams are up in the air, floating around like barely-formed wisps in our minds and hearts, they can allude us, drifting about like dandelion wishes, seeming just as insubstantial. When we give our dreams a form, a voice, when we put our ideas to paper or articulate them in some way, we remind

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A Change of Perspective

When my family moved into our last apartment, our final stop before purchasing a home, I barely furnished it. “Were only here for a little while,” I would offer as explanation for our couch with no coffee table, our table pushed awkwardly in the corner. Little by little the bedrooms became more homey; it was

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Asking For Second Chances

It sometimes seems, as a parent, that all day long all we do is “do overs”. “That’s not the right way to talk to me. Try it again please.” “How can you ask your brother nicely? Let’s try again.” “I asked you to walk, not run. Please come back here and try again.” It can

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