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The weather has finally turned towards warm, and we've been outside almost non-stop for days. Rio learned to ride her bike. That kid just blows my mind. Serena too. Bumping along home in the bike trailer tonight Serena kept warbling, "I short and stout" like a drunken sailor, which kept cracking me up because my best friend and I have this joke about it being "past your teapot" when you're too tired to remember the words to the little teapot song. It's good. It's sunshine and water and coloring on the porch steps with chalk for two hours while the little one sleeps in her stroller and the kindergartner shows you how she can write WORDS with CHALK on the STEPS. It's also Sexual Assault Awareness month, apparently. It is always sexual assault awareness month here inside my head.  Read more >

Dear Concerned Citizens, Please do not shout insults or parenting advice at me as I am biking past your car on a city street with my kids in tow. Your fear for my children’s safety is truly touching. However, if you pause for a moment, you may realize that taking your own attention away from the vehicle you are driving to startle, alarm and anger the rider of the bicycle does not make my kids safer.  Read more >