Comments on: slouching towards bethlehem

By: SDHC

SDHC — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 09:19:00 +0000

Wow,thank you for posting.Such a wonderfull post.

By: Lura Panama

Lura Panama — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 07:14:40 +0000

I hope you would not have reservations if I posted a part of this on my univeristy blog?

By: Danielle

Danielle — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:34:32 +0000

This is right here, in the present, not the future.

By: Misty

Misty — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:38:08 +0000

Your kids will teach you how to raise them. They will show you the world so pure and simple its hurts to witness. When they hold your hand and walk down the street, it will be assumed you are leading them, but who’s leading who?

By: mo-wo

mo-wo — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:07:36 +0000

I want to write you about the co-parenting… I do. But it seems too pushy. Don’t worry. You will make the way.. but it is you. Parenting is fair, its is shared but it is NOT EGALITARIAN. The buck stops with YOU mama.

I call where you might be now ‘the repose’. You know too much and nothing at all.

And, what do I do when the words fail — well I did have an earful for you on that one. Please see my post, “this blog sucks”

By: Lori

Lori — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:11:45 +0000

I had the same thought as Bea- happiness leaves me with far less to say. And while I realize there is much more to this post than communicating your present happiness, I do think there is something to that. I blogged a lot when I had so much stirring inside of me that was going unsaid. Now, I have said it. Most of it. Most of the time. But, as you said, there are still quiet thoughts that come along that I only seem to be able to voice here.

I always look forward to hearing what you have to say- whatever it may be.

By: crazymumma

crazymumma — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 04:36:19 +0000

I think anyone who is not slightly adrift at this whole life love kids thing is either in flat denial, crazy as a hare, or on very very excellent pharmacuticals.

i wish, oh how I wish someone had given me the roadmap, the script. Cause dude. Mapquest rarely works and my eps system is way off.

lovely lovely deep post.

By: Mad Hatter

Mad Hatter — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 04:15:15 +0000

I am a product of a single parent household. For me the propensity is toward fear, bleak omens, the constant hint of death. Makes me a perky person, right?

As for blogging. I can see where the age is in decline but I plan to keep going anyway. I’ve made a small handful of friends out here and this is how we keep in touch. If I post one a week–fine. If I am dull and renovation centred for a couple of weeks–fine. If I wake up one day needing to riddle through an issue that I can’t quite peg–fine as well. It’s easier for me, though, because I don’t have parents whose feelings may be hurt by what I write.

By: tara

tara — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:08:15 +0000

Wow- your thoughts are so eerily familiar that I felt compelled to write. I usually just read once in a while. My parents divorced when I was a baby and it is a constant struggle for me to figure everything out- love, parenting, acceptance. Your words have reminded me that I am not alone in the struggle. My main hope for 2009 is just to keep having hope.

By: Hammy

Hammy — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:19:00 +0000

My parents divorced when I was around 4, and I really don’t have any recollection of us as a family. My mother re-married before my 6th birthday – another poor choice that had its own ramifications.

I used to joke that my personality and perspective was shaped by the power of negative models. And I do feel that is true to some extent; I always knew exactly what I didn’t want to be.

Maybe that’s true now – we commit to making our own mistakes, leaving our parents’ to the past….