Notes on Life from a Poet Lawyerette

This blog includes all-new brief essays, poetry, and my more general efforts to reflect on the meaning of life and often more specifically, motherhood.

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

...It happened again!

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"You look like her," said to me, of the poet Kate Tempest, earlier this month.

Thursday, March 19, 2015

"You look just like..."

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"...Nicole Kidman in Far and Away ," said the customer looking up at me in the retail music store I managed 20 years ago. ...

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Friday, March 13, 2015

A Few Words About Mortality

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Although I have been sick and feeling pretty lousy for a full couple of weeks now, that is not what has mortality on my mind again at the mo...

Friday, October 3, 2014

Some Things Arlo Has Learned From Noah

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That when I pick up a stick, or a foam or plastic sword, the sound to make is "Hi-ya!" and then "Hi-ya! Hi-ya! Hi-ya!" ...

Thursday, June 26, 2014

Loose Ends and a Watering Can

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Arlo and Matthew are asleep, and Noah is off with a friend at Vacation Bible School for the evening. I am not ready to sleep. I could work...

Thursday, May 15, 2014

Sproing!

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I know that Spring has come to Maine when I find myself driving behind a huge tractor towing the sharpest, spikiest, most unidentifiable pie...

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Sometimes Parenting is NOT About Multitasking

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After what feels like months of filling every moment of every day, so that even the very end of day before bedtime is crammed with piles of ...

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Kate Faragher Houghton: Mid-Coast Maine, United States; I have been writing poetry and stories since I was a small girl. Journaling began in high school, and in my adult life I also co-wrote a couple of screenplays. I return to writing again and again to find myself, to sort things out, and to connect with others.

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