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...
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Maggie Stewart
- Feb 2
- 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Maggie Stewart
- Sep 1, 2021
- 3 min
Earworms and Triathlons
My amazing friend, Julie - who heads huge companies and takes on challenges like I take on tins of Garrett’s Popcorn (Chicago Mix, of...
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Maggie Stewart
- Jul 13, 2021
- 3 min
Book Group
We are back. We’re out again. And book group is so ready to meet! You know book group. The microcosm bound together by a book a month. Or...
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Maggie Stewart
- May 3, 2021
- 3 min
RIP Land Cruiser
The Land Cruiser died. There were signs, for a long time, that we refused to accept. “You really wanna get this fixed?” Jeff, our service...
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Maggie Stewart
- Feb 25, 2021
- 3 min
Snow
Sometimes snow is tender. It can come so soft it quiets me like the sound of a mother’s voice long distance. Today, so thick, it deafens...
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Maggie Stewart
- Jan 4, 2021
- 3 min
Will We Miss This Year?
I miss the sweaty warm feeling in the crook of your arm when you finally set down to sleep a crying toddler. The toddler that cried, as...
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Maggie Stewart
- Dec 17, 2020
- 3 min
When Rory Brought Home A Puppy At Christmas
Rory texted me out of the blue: Is Pa home??? I shot back: nope And then he called. Whats up Rory? “Something kinda weird has happened....
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Maggie Stewart
- Oct 16, 2020
- 3 min
A Place of Honor in the Heart
My Dad, who died before we could be adults together, told me as a child: “You can be a writer.” Like it was as simple or obvious as...
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Maggie Stewart
- Sep 3, 2020
- 3 min
How a Parent's Voice Changes...or Watching Family Videos
On a recent hot, rainy, thunderstorm day where I couldn’t work on COVID activity #1 (the garden); Dillon said he would help me download...
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