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The Snow Fell - and I right along with it

1/20/12 1:57pm by BarnMaven
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Finally, it came.  Boy, howdy, did it come.  We got a good six inches between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.  School was delayed, meetings were cancelled, we pretty much didn't leave the house except for putting the kids on the bus and getting them back off.  The kids had a blast playing in the snow.  All Wednesday it was the perfect snowball snow - fluffy, just wet enough to stick together to form a ball.  Race Car man quickly got over his aversion to socks when he discovered how cold his feet got in his snow boots without them.  We  Read more >

Talking to My Daughter About Love -- and Race

9/23/11 12:10pm by BarnMaven
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Heart on parchment, iStockphoto

Because her brother stayed home, A and I had a nice long ride to work together today. She's been having some trouble sleeping lately.  Talking about that led to talking about her dad and I, and that led to talking about relationships and being in love. Thinking of SG and I, I offered her some of my thoughts on what I find to be important in relationships, such as choosing someone that you really like and enjoy beyond that sensational feeling of floating you get whenever you're around them, and choosing someone who really cares about you and who is kind and sweet.  Read more >

Turn Off Your Phone, Put on the Coffee, and Curl Up With Rules of Civility

9/2/11 2:00pm by BarnMaven
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Amor Towles' debut novel is a sublime read.  He brings to life a time long forgotten with exquisite turns of phrase and sharp detail. I was completely captivated by Rules of Civility from the first paragraph.  In the voice of his main protagonist, Kate Kontent, Towles opens the novel with a scene set more than 30 years ahead of its base timeline.  You are immediately drawn in by Kate’s chance brush with her past and eager to learn about the people and the time who so clearly have impacted her life.   Read more >

Do what it takes?

8/26/11 1:08pm by BarnMaven
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The Interwebs are abuzz over Catherine Hakim's new book Erotic Capital.  Hakim, a British sociologist,  is best known for authoring books and articles centered around women in the workplace and gender equality.  A self-described feminist, Hakim has made a career of attempting to understand and iterate the social, political and economic impact woman have in the workplace and how pressures of conformity and patriarchal valu  Read more >

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Mary Peret
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Mary Peret, a/k/a Barnmaven, blogs at http://www.barnmaven.com about life as a cowigirl slash zookeeper slash Mom and what its like to be an adult with ADHD raising children with ADHD, bipolar and sensory processing disorder.  She drinks far too much coffee and is trying to learn to watch her language.

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