“I am very grateful to my country. I was born and grew up in a part of the world where life is supposed to be hard for most people, but harder for women.” — Hayet Laouni, a business owner in Tunisia and member of the country’s Senate Having spent the last few weeks reading Half [...]
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Country 12: Tunisia
Posted in Africa, tagged Half the Sky on January 31, 2010 | 1 Comment »
From family bed to family table
Posted in parenting, tagged family bed on January 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
“The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child.” — Joe Houldsworth We have a tradition in our home that started from the family bed of my children’s babyhood. We played musical beds for years before finally settling in on the norm, which is generally us in our room and the boys [...]
Country 11: Nigeria
Posted in Africa, tagged Africa, women to women international on January 23, 2010 | 8 Comments »
“We were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren’t allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones.” — Ben Okri (Nigerian poet and novelist) Like most Americans, I didn’t think much about Nigeria until [...]
Week 12
Posted in dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged breakfast, dinner, family dinner, pancakes on January 18, 2010 | 2 Comments »
“If people take the trouble to cook, you should take the trouble to eat.” — Robert Morley There will be minimal cooking this week (why is cooking for three is so much less stressful than four?). And much of what is cooked will be prepared by Noah, who won the highly competitive Snarky Teenager of [...]
The great grilled cheese standoff
Posted in dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged breakfast, dinner, pre-teen, Whole Foods on January 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
“The food you buy is crap.” — Noah on this less-than-idyllic Sunday afternoon Oy. The lastest pre-teen battle started with a request to go to the mall this afternoon, catch a movie with friends, and hang out a bit. All without parents, he casually pitched, as if he was asking to go upstairs and read [...]
Guest country: Haiti
Posted in Africa, tagged Doctors Without Borders, earthquake, Habitat for Humanity, Haiti, refugees, UMCOR on January 16, 2010 | 7 Comments »
“The difference between charity and justice is changing the system. Haiti was a disaster even before the earthquake, but it was a disaster of our own doing, not natural forces.” — Trish Major (friend and local activist). I got my first passport to go to Haiti. I think the year was 1992, and I was [...]
A miserable breakfast
Posted in dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged breakfast, fighting on January 15, 2010 | 3 Comments »
“Kiss my grits” — Flo, the favorite waitress of anyone who grew up in the ’70s Sometimes a Friday morning family breakfast can be a wonderful way to start your day. Sometimes it makes you wish you could just wake up in an empty apartment with nothing but Pop-Tarts, a papasan chair, and a cat. [...]
Week 11
Posted in dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged breakfast, meal planning, schedule on January 10, 2010 | 3 Comments »
“My grandmother was a tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping.” — Rita Rudner My grandmother is also a tough woman — tough to be very close to. My mom’s mom moved to Texas to be closer to all of us (and away from Illinois winters) 10 years ago. [...]
Day 69: Uh-oh
Posted in dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged dinner, family dinner on January 9, 2010 | 4 Comments »
“We didn’t have our family meal yesterday.” — the first sentence out of Noah’s mouth this morning It’s true. I realized it as we pulled into our friends’ driveway to drop off Sawyer at a birthday sleepover last night. How it happened is perfectly reasonable and absolutely absent-minded. I make our family calendar (here and [...]
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