Huh
After a birthday party we received a thank you note from three year old Brynne. I am sure there is nothing more beautiful and curious to...
top of page
Search
Maggie Stewart
- May 5
- 3 min
A Love Letter to All New Moms
Hallie, my niece, sends me photos of baby Lily. Sean’s and her first. I am now a great aunt and far from the years of babies in my...
202 views0 comments
Maggie Stewart
- Apr 10
- 2 min
The OK Time To Overflow With Love
Dropped off and through the door there is that first look. His eyes are expectant and smiling. And I dance around the kitchen island,...
125 views6 comments
Maggie Stewart
- Feb 23
- 4 min
Need More Wisdom
I can’t remember anything. A memory class comes up and I enroll. And if I could remember everything learned I would spell it all out...
157 views6 comments
Maggie Stewart
- Nov 11, 2023
- 3 min
Guys Don't Talk
My friend, Aruna, is so upset. “He doesn’t want to talk to me anymore. He doesn’t want to be with me.” Her son is 15. And, just like...
175 views3 comments
Maggie Stewart
- Oct 13, 2023
- 3 min
Saying Something Stupid and Losing A Friend
Spent a week with my BF from college, Mary. We laughed, ate, drank, saw the Eagles and sang along to every song. We looked through the...
198 views7 comments
Maggie Stewart
- Sep 27, 2023
- 3 min
Is Gym the New Church?
In a NYT opinion piece, an author calls health clubs the new church. People are leaving real church. Millenials want to find something...
200 views6 comments
Maggie Stewart
- May 21, 2023
- 4 min
Too Much Stuff!
We’ve got too much stuff. Friends are moving and having estate sales. Stuff sales. I am hearing how overwhelming this is - to clear a...
251 views4 comments
Maggie Stewart
- Mar 12, 2023
- 4 min
Can’t. Stop.
I can‘t stop parenting. My friends tell stories of how they “zipped their lips“ when they had the Perfect Solution for their adult...
212 views9 comments
Maggie Stewart
- Feb 2, 2023
- 3 min
Is Suffering Training?
In my philosophy class, our teacher asks - “Have you changed? Who are you now?” We have to write down a list of ideas that complete the...
137 views8 comments
Maggie Stewart
- Nov 14, 2022
- 3 min
Half Finished Water Bottles
I keep finding half done water bottles everywhere in the house. During summer they crept outside. One by the chaise lounge; lazily...
193 views8 comments
Maggie Stewart
- Sep 21, 2022
- 4 min
Loneliness? Not on My Watch
Virginia Lane was our bike street. All the kids met there. There was absolutely no traffic on Virginia Lane except for Mr. Stair who...
139 views3 comments
Maggie Stewart
- Aug 19, 2022
- 3 min
Boat Houses and the Smells of Summer
The crackling static on the old clock radio before a summer storm brings back so many summer memories. There was a lot of crackling on...
176 views12 comments
Maggie Stewart
- Jun 3, 2022
- 2 min
What Can We Do With A Memory?
We went back to Florida for fun for the first time since my mother in law, Joan, died there. The last couple years with Joan were really...
170 views9 comments
Maggie Stewart
- Mar 11, 2022
- 2 min
We Can Be Better
We had a fake spring a few days ago. People in shorts, in pastel sweaters, smiles, hello’s to strangers. I love, adore, worship spring....
161 views1 comment
Maggie Stewart
- Feb 4, 2022
- 3 min
Cairns
On the path around the retention pond, on the flat wood fence that holds nothing in or out - there is a cairn of small rocks. Chris says...
137 views4 comments
Maggie Stewart
- Jan 24, 2022
- 3 min
Have You Put Away Your Holiday Stuff?!
End of January. Usually a few remnants of Christmas decorations up.These loiterers get put away slowly; as I pass by and see stuff in...
118 views6 comments
Maggie Stewart
- Dec 7, 2021
- 3 min
Glitter, Oura and Daydreaming
I just read about a Harvard study that found adults spend 47% of our lives in daydreams!! It said daydreams were good - as long as they...
172 views11 comments
Maggie Stewart
- Nov 23, 2021
- 2 min
Komorebi
Tree guys are everywhere doing the oaks. Makes me think back to living in Wilmette and having our oaks trimmed. The tree guys at our...
115 views5 comments
Maggie Stewart
- Oct 6, 2021
- 4 min
FOOTBALL SEASON!!!!!!!!
Watching sports got us through the winter in Edina, Minnesota. My dad was a Sports Fan. Our family of five had four season tickets for...
116 views4 comments
bottom of page