Tag Archives: Parenting

Chocolate chips

Posted on April 12, 2011 by InkQuillibrium

It is 10.07. What possessed me to ask Rosalind to hide the chocolate chips from me? Ghirardelli chocolate chips, not Hershey’s, I should be clear. I have thought of waking her and shaking her recumbent body until it divulges their hiding … Continue reading →

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Response to Anna Quindlen – Family Snapshots

Posted on December 19, 2010 by InkQuillibrium

A while ago a friend sent me an article by the renowned American journalist, Anna Quindlen. It was a retrospective on motherhood by one who has survived its most arduous years. She acknowledges the ‘unreliable haze of the past’, the … Continue reading →

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A post of perfect drivel

Posted on November 20, 2010 by InkQuillibrium

This post is not even going to be in the category of parental drivel, just general drivel. I have been single parenting for 16 days. There are three more to go and I am at a loss for coherent words … Continue reading →

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Clockwork toys to Congress

Posted on November 12, 2010 by InkQuillibrium

I started to draft this post last Sunday which was not a good day. I finished it in the doctor’s waiting room, the second of the waiting rooms in which you wait in the US. This is something that Jerry … Continue reading →

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Introducing the Winter Social to Euros

Posted on November 9, 2010 by InkQuillibrium

So what is the winter social? You poor Euros don’t know what you’re missing. You hang together at some naval bowling alley and eat M&Ms and cheap chicken wings and try to forget all about it by downing warm lager/beer. … Continue reading →

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