From the monthly archives:

October 2009

My Awesome Stick Figure Family

by tarastar on October 20, 2009

I’ve been seeing these stick figure families on the back windows of cars for a while now.  At first I thought they were advertising something.  I guess they are in a way – a nuclear, happy family.  There are usually, in these stick figure representations, a mom, a dad and a couple of kids.  Often [...]

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Unsexy Halloween

by tarastar on October 19, 2009

It’s possible I just haven’t been paying attention to Halloween costumes in the last couple of years.  My kids were younger.  The twins especially had no opinion on what costume they might wear and only last year did the light bulb go off about the miracle of trick or treating.  But in this year’s search [...]

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Mama’s Boy

by tarastar on October 3, 2009

Clyde has been raised by women.  His father and I split up when he was just 9 months old.  Though his father was involved and shared custody, the people around him most of all were me, Claudia (the children’s nanny) his grandmother, his aunt and his sisters.  Poor Clyde, people would say, surrounded by women. [...]

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