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Last summer, Nancy and I drove on the Blue Ridge Parkway. It runs for nearly 500 miles through Virginia and adjoining states.
It isn’t a quick way to anywhere. The speed limit is 45. It is two lanes. Because it runs through the mountains, there are few straight places.
It isn’t a predicable way. You can’t see […]

The So Called Me is hosting another huge Carnival of Family Life. Karly Campbell’s “Make a Volcano” post is featured in the education section. There are a whole lot of great contributions, so pop on over when you have some time.

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. ~Rajneesh

I am a better mother because I am surrounded by other mothers. These are inspired times when, despite the hour, […]

This past weekend, I attended Podcamp NYC 2.0. This was a conference I organized, taking place in a city where I do not live, requiring tons of time and effort on my part to put on, and requiring sacrifices on the part of my family as a result. The conference was terrific, I […]

My middle child is my most challenging child. It is the way Dash was born. His personality seemed to be embedded, long before he arrived, two weeks earlier than scheduled. He was the loudest baby in the hospital. When the nurses took him to bathe him we […]

Thanks to everyone for your patience. We are resuming our regularly scheduled program (see our freshest content below) while we continue to work behind the scenes to restore all of the delicious content that’s been eaten.
Thanks for sticking with us and for all of your well wishes. We will be back to […]

For the folks who are playing the game at home, we now have the ugly error message cleaned up all nice and tidy. Now comes the task of rebuilding the site. In the meantime, we’ll do our best to get new posts published. Thanks for hanging in there with us, we surely appreciate it.

As you may have noticed, we’re having a little bit of a problem. We’re working on it, so please keep checking back. You, our readers, are the absolute reason that we do this. We love you and we would really miss you if you went away! So hang in there, we’ll get this fixed just […]