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I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that.
About Me
Blogs I Like to Read
- Amy's Very Cool Homeschooling Family
- Ann Douglas
- Blogging Baby
- David Rhoden
- Domestic Psychology
- First Impressionist
- Jonathan Hickman
- Lemuria Books
- Mamas Ink
- Marrit Ingman
- Martini Made
- Meagan Francis
- Mo's Journal
- Remembering Ward
- Suburban Turmoil
- The Vol Abroad
- This Woman's Work
- Women's Health News
- Zygote Daddy
Good Stuff on Being a Parent/Family Life
Books I"ve written/contributed to
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- flavor of love
- garden state
- free at last...
- trashed
- my new year's resolutions
- i hope to be remembered so colorfully...
- Today it became clear to me in a whole new way tha...
- my picks for new year's eve
- dr. ferber backtracks
- In a contest to decide which guy is worse, would y...
- Tara Reid should sue her plastic surgeon.
- If you love top ten lists like I love top ten list...
- chris klein is a blithering idiot
- my picks for best records of 2005
- duct tape
- Increased Cesarean Rate for Low-risk Women Contrad...
- equestrienne
- best knoxville shows of the year
- word. good advice...
- wintering
- my fave christmas present this year...
- quote o' the day
- merry christmas eve
- way to go massachussetts!
- some holiday cheer
- Todd Steed Christmas Concert
- new jersey needs a new slogan
- carrot top...be very afraid
- Elliot's story
- smart, hipster ho needed in NYC
- rains, pours
- The End
- This is one of the scariest things I've read in ag...
- hey NYC blog readers...
- i hate cold weather
- Christmas really begins for me today. My children ...
- weezer celibacy
- narnia rap
- I just got off the phone with a good friend of min...
- newmusic
- ponch
- downtown randall brown
- I am really looking forward to seeing the gay cowb...
- sizing up jude law
- luigi the band
- E makes his gingerbread house
- good work
- an irritation
- the corrections
- jen's chest
- grown up
- i heart copyeditors
- babylust
- what kate wants for christmas..
- today i am listening to...
- current listening...
- i know what i'll be doing new year's eve...
- mother, interrupted
- current listening
- mouses
- My little Tom Pappas/Flesh Vehicle write-up is liv...
- the teenage boy at mothershock
- superficial
- heidi klum & everybody else
- Heath Ledger's got it right.
- I interviewed Tom Pappas today about hsi upcoming ...
- time travel
- lovingkindness
- sleepyhead
- violet affleck
- mitzvahpalooza
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4 comments:
wow-did you read the comments on it? The guy is just sharing his feelings. It's one thing to point out flaws in his thinking or to say, maybe you should consider this side to it...... But there's no reason for people to attack the way they do. They do that here too,people have so much anger. It's sad.
I guess I'm glad I din't read the comments. That's a beautiful essay. I think it's even true for those of us that had kids really early, and only now recognize what we missed. My younger brother has a baby, and I find myself thinking about ways to spend time with him (the baby), sort of daydreaming a bit about what it might be like, even though my life and schedule are beyond insane (when my wife and I explain our multi-city, travel for business, see each other on the weekends lifestyle, most people look at us like we are Martians).
His paragraph about dreams and loss of innocence is piercing.
I kind of agree with some of the 'snarky' comments on the original site. What has the guy *done* in all these years to really get to know kids? He just has some vague idea about them. One would think he'd get involved as a volunteer or even babysitting friends' kids if he loves them so much.
I am glad I had my children young enough that I still had some innocence left. As you get older (pushing 40) that innocence is gone . . . except for my children. Sharing the world with them and seeing it through thier eyes gives me hope everyday. And that is an invaluable gift.
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