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Dalai Mama Dishes

by Catherine Newman

Catherine Newman cooks for the family

Dalai Mama Dishes

Catherine Newman cooks for the family

Tooth, Wisdom

Posted May 19, 2008

Ever wonder what Catherine sounds like? Listen to her read this blog entry.

Because we moved in the dead of winter, the warming days have brought us a string of beautiful surprises: Oh! we say about the tree we've been watching for months now as round, ice-encased buds burst into flat, waxy blooms. That's a dogwood! A bed of little chive-like clumps turns out to be grape hyacinths; another bed of little chive-like clumps turns out to be chives.… Read More
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Bedfellows

Posted May 13, 2008

Ever wonder what Catherine sounds like? Listen to her read this blog entry.

I have nearly all of my best conversations in bed. Not with friends as a rule - unless we're lucky enough to have captured someone in the house for a sleepover. Usually friendship conversations happen now in deeply condensed bursts, and although I miss the languorous chitchat of pre-kid days, I treasure the way intimacy is as reduced as a glazy, delicious sauce. Even just yesterday,… Read More
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Natural Talent

Posted May 06, 2008

Ever wonder what Catherine sounds like? Listen to her read this blog entry.

If Birdy suddenly cocks her elbows in the air and starts wagging her bottom back and forth with that kind of look on her face a puppy might get when she's sprinting past with your underpants in her mouth, well, you can guess what'll happen next. Oh - you can't? Then I'll tell you: you're about to be treated to a song. You know, just a… Read More
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Adjustable Rate Mothering

Posted April 29, 2008

Ever wonder what Catherine sounds like? Listen to her read this blog entry.

Once you learn to ride a bike, the idea is that you are still constantly making all the little adjustments you need in order to keep your balance - but you learn to make them unconsciously: you lean a bit this way, a bit that way, you tip the handlebars, turn your head a fraction of an inch, and stay effortlessly aloft. And I have actually… Read More
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Marathon

Posted April 22, 2008

Ever wonder what Catherine sounds like? Listen to her read this blog entry.



When Ben was two months old, Michael walked out on us. To attend a philosophy conference. For three days. But still. I prepared meticulously for this abandonment, stewing up an enormous pot of meat and vegetables, stocking up on diapers and beer and Good N Plenty, laundering nursing pads and swaddling blankets, washing my own straggly, falling-out excuse for hair. It was like taking a huge… Read More
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Birdy Longstocking

Posted April 14, 2008

Ever wonder what Catherine sounds like? Listen to her read this blog entry.

It's easy for me to forget that the children don't always have all the information they need. Information so as not to make choices that send me Thelma and Louiseing myself into a canyon. Tonight, for instance. Michael's working, so the kids and I have upholstered ourselves to the big bed, all of us bundled down together for the duration, to write in our journals and… Read More
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About Catherine Newman

Catherine Newman is the author of the memoir, Waiting for Birdy: A Year of Frantic Tedium, Neurotic Angst, and the Wild Magic of Growing a Family, available online and in bookstores nationwide.

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