Play Is Not Just a Little Word
Patty Pearcy
If your world is like mine, it is full of checklists, shopping lists, reading lists and even a bucket list. But I bet the
If your world is like mine, it is full of checklists, shopping lists, reading lists and even a bucket list. But I bet the
May 2017 Blog – Change Submission Deadline: Due Date: April 28 (600-900 word count) Change is inevitable; regardless if we welcome it with open arms
If you could look inside my brain you might be surprised to find some pretty negative thoughts: “Nothing works out,” “Everything is too hard,”
I sat in a dark room and rocked our 6-month-old back to sleep for what seemed like the 1,000th time. “Dang it,” I muttered
“Hey Mom, you need to write about your running,” said my 10-year-old son. “Tell people why you run so much.” We were walking home
“Did you fall?” she asks me pointing to the wounds on my fingers. She doesn’t even look up, while she throws the dices in
Following the birth of my first child, I felt as if I had walked through a veil; one that separated me from my previous
Lately the landscape of my mothering has been much less manicured and mostly messy. My life is a constant ebb and flow of laundry-dinner-dishes
“Eight, nine, ten … ready or not here I come!” Giggles unmistakably coming from behind the curtains. Doing my best to play along, I
It’s been almost six years since my building principal found me sobbing in the main foyer during the school day. Looking back, my plate