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🕯#yomhashoah #holocaustremembrancedayA rally against anti-Asian violence, from welcometochinatown.com.They are all back in school, for now, for some days. Every September I have been excited, wistful as they left again with backpacks and lunches. After almost a year of uncertainty and struggling to varying degrees, I am a bit more detached than grateful, more numb than thoughtful. I know we will get better, get back, become more whole; but I find I need to acknowledge, on repeat, how surreal and scary and sad these many months have been. Forward is a good direction, and this simple routine is a step.-
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Tag Archives: children
By Any Other Name (A True Story)
Do you have one of those things that is long and you make noise by pressing the holes like this–? Then as if in a movie, or a nightmare, my words slowed to half-speed drawl, and before my brain could stop my … Continue reading
Posted in Family Life, Humor, New York City Living and Coping, Parenting Moments
Tagged children, city kids, humor, parenting
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A Special Kind of Attention
Early one recent winter morning, my four-year-old son came barreling into my bedroom. It was still dark outside, and the heat in our apartment was cranking up; the pipes in the bathroom banged on and on. “Mommy, would you build … Continue reading
Dreaming With Light
My children sleep with dream lights. They are not the Dream Lites advertised on television because we assumed, of course, those would not work. When the kids started asking for the ones on television, however, we found these at a … Continue reading
Posted in Family Life, New York City Living and Coping, Parenting Moments
Tagged bedtime, bedtime routines, children, cloud b, dream lights, parenting, stars
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