Literary Mama : Columns

December 18, 2011

This past summer, Dan and I took our first week-long vacation without Ethan. We spent it at Wellspring House, a writer's retreat in the small town of Ashfield, Massachusetts where the general store serves gourmet breakfasts, the hardware store sells homemade ice cream, and both offer an impressive selection of poetry books.
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Oct 16 2011	At Home with a Teen
Aug 20 2011	Unfinished Overseas
May 29 2011	Staying a City Mouse
Jan 29 2011	The Chapter on Being Fourteen
Jan 02 2011	What Lies Beneath
Dec 05 2010	You're My Mom. I Love You. But That Doesn't Mean I Want to Hang Out With You.
Nov 07 2010	Guardian Angels of the Staircase
Oct 09 2010	But, in Things. . .
Sep 12 2010	The Bootlegged Path to San Marco
Aug 16 2010	My Easy Child
Jul 24 2010	Dinner for Three
Jun 19 2010	Love Always From Ruth
May 21 2010	It Takes a Village
Apr 25 2010	Mothering the Muse
Mar 28 2010	Legacy
Feb 28 2010	A Raw Ordeal
Jan 30 2010	Photographs and Memories
Jan 03 2010	Same Difference
Dec 06 2009	We Are Family
Nov 07 2009	Meeting Hate Face to Face
Oct 10 2009	Kitchen Table Judaism
Sep 12 2009	Something Old/Something New
Aug 15 2009	Guy Night
Jul 19 2009	Imperfect Terms
Jun 20 2009	Live at Maxwell's
May 31 2009	Rooting for the Home Team
Apr 25 2009	The Sacred Nylabone of Now
Mar 28 2009	Hail to the Chief
Feb 28 2009	Our Houseful
Feb 07 2009	Game Face
Jan 10 2009	Happiness, Apparently, Is a Warm Gun
Dec 07 2008	Puppy Love
Nov 01 2008	Getting to Yes
Sep 27 2008	Another Mama for Obama
Aug 24 2008	Hello Muddah
Jun 22 2008	Sweet Child of Mine
May 18 2008	Reading on My Mother's Behalf
Apr 13 2008	Frida and Me
Mar 15 2008	Life, Death, and Middle School
Feb 10 2008	Life in Parentheses
Jan 12 2008	The Many Faces of Help
Dec 02 2007	Still Life with Shoes
Nov 04 2007	That Other Kind of Waking
Oct 07 2007	Better a Diamond
Sep 09 2007	Vistas
Jul 29 2007	Difficult Terrain
Jun 17 2007	The Part That Stays
May 20 2007	Down the Basement Steps
Apr 22 2007	The Formula For Letting Go
Mar 25 2007	The Stepfather Question
Feb 04 2007	Phasing Out the Honeymoon Phase
Jan 07 2007	Noticeable
Dec 03 2006	The Imagined Child
Nov 05 2006	Hair Envy
Sep 10 2006	Facing the City
Jul 16 2006	Raising the Ruling Class
May 21 2006	Good Sports
Apr 10 2006	Coming Home
Feb 13 2006	Beautiful Things
Dec 18 2005	Doing it Differently