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Are You Still Getting Proud Announcements?
In the last couple of years, without me noticing, I stopped getting Proud Announcements first. Proud Announcements are phone calls,...
Maggie Stewart
Jan 292 min read
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You May Not Want to Get the Kids Lizards For Christmas
I grew up with dogs. But Chris grew up with cleanliness. So when the boys pleaded for a dog, the answer was No . Too dirty. No one...
Maggie Stewart
Dec 12, 20243 min read
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Queen of the Tetons
I saw Grizzly 399 on a girls trip out to Jackson Hole when my three boys were very young. A trip to relax, to hike, to spa, to girl. ...
Maggie Stewart
Nov 1, 20244 min read
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Are You Listening?
Later in her life, I would help Grandma get her socks on when she visited. She couldn't bend over by then, and she had - what she called...
Maggie Stewart
Oct 4, 20242 min read
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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...
Maggie Stewart
Jun 21, 20243 min read
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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...
Maggie Stewart
May 5, 20243 min read
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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,...
Maggie Stewart
Apr 10, 20242 min read
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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...
Maggie Stewart
Feb 23, 20244 min read
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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...
Maggie Stewart
Nov 11, 20233 min read
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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...
Maggie Stewart
Oct 13, 20233 min read
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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...
Maggie Stewart
Sep 27, 20233 min read
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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...
Maggie Stewart
May 21, 20234 min read
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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...
Maggie Stewart
Mar 12, 20234 min read
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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...
Maggie Stewart
Feb 2, 20233 min read
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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...
Maggie Stewart
Nov 14, 20223 min read
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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...
Maggie Stewart
Sep 21, 20224 min read
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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...
Maggie Stewart
Aug 19, 20223 min read
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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...
Maggie Stewart
Jun 3, 20222 min read
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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....
Maggie Stewart
Mar 11, 20222 min read
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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...
Maggie Stewart
Feb 4, 20223 min read
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