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Posted on June 6, 2023June 5, 2023 by maya j · 1 Comment

What’s on the menu?

I am sorting through the kitchen drawer, you know the one where you shove all the bits and pieces, - the takeaway menus and the washing machine manual, lolly-sticks from that time you were gonna make your own, broken bamboo skewers that you are saving in case there is a bamboo shortage. So, I was…

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Posted on May 2, 2023April 18, 2023 by maya j · 1 Comment

Pockets

Pockets There is a thing that happens when your children are all grown up. Suddenly you have pockets. Pockets on coats, pockets in bags, pockets on jeans. It’s not that these pockets suddenly appear. It’s more that these pockets suddenly become yours. Let me explain, see when you have kids your pockets are always full…

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Posted on February 21, 2023February 3, 2023 by maya j · 1 Comment

Missing their song

I miss my kids. Not just as they are now -the funny, bright, annoying, boring people they have become with their busy lives, exciting plans and lives far away. I miss them, for how they used to be, when they were mine, when I held their hands and wiped away their tears. It’s not all…

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Posted on July 26, 2022July 14, 2022 by maya j

Pets on Parade

Do your kids have pets? Over the years we’ve had a whole bloody menagerie. There were several Hamsters, though my daughter thought we only had one –  We also had three cats so I will let you work it out. One time, on an early morning dash back from the pet store with a replacement…

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Posted on November 16, 2021November 16, 2021 by maya j

The raising of ducklings

Photo by Armando Are on Pexels.com We have this myth that our kids are grownups at 18. This is a myth mostly perpetuated by 18-year-old who think they know everything, and possibly by the parents of young children who are desperately clinging to the idea of a little light at the end of a very…

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