by Robin | Oct 21, 2013 | Favorite things, Memoir, Mom stuff, Mothers and daughters, Personal, The Wonder of a Woman, Women
Venus and Amor by Berlin sculpture, Reinhold Begas on display at Munich’s Neue Pinakothek. Image by Robin Dance. When my children were all still young, they were demanding little creatures. At times, their relentless needs plucked raw my patience...
by Robin | Jan 2, 2013 | Inspiring, Memoir, Mothers and daughters, Parenting, Personal, Teens & Tweens, Uncategorized
Afew years ago I learned an invaluable parenting lesson in the most unexpected of Life Classrooms: a funeral. From the time I met her in the hospital, Teresa had always been in poor health. In the few years I knew her, she visited death’s threshhold multiple...
by Robin | Aug 19, 2012 | Memoir, Mom stuff, Mothers and daughters, Personal
There is this moment, this really good moment, and I want to capture it the way you can hold memory forever in a picture. We're just riding, leaving the place she had chosen for her birthday dinner, where fate would have it that it was just a...
by Robin | Aug 17, 2012 | Family, Mothers and daughters
She was born on a monday. It was a day worthy of memory: a miracle. a first. a day the world changed for the better. A day my life changed for the better. That day her grandfather walked into my room and slipped a torn piece of paper into my hand...
by Robin | Apr 25, 2012 | Advice, Kids, Mom stuff, Mothers and daughters, Parenting, Simple Mom, Teens & Tweens
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. ~ Unattributed Chinese proverb As is often the case, one of the best things a parent can give their teenager is hardly a thing at all: it's room. Room… to make...
by Robin | Apr 16, 2012 | Family, Kids, Life with boys, Mom stuff, Mothers and daughters, Music, Videos, youtube ROCKS!
I like to car dance. It's not like I set out to shake-my-groove-thang when I get in the car; it's more a subconscious respond to happy tunes jammin' on the radio (closet fellow car dancers HOLLA!). My heart spins merry to see someone else at a...