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, 20213 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, 20213 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, 20213 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, 20213 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, 20213 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, 20203 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, 20203 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, 20203 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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Maggie Stewart
Jul 3, 20202 min
Light-Years and What I Have Failed to Do
“Look outside now!” Rosanne texts to the Neighborhood Gals chain. “A strawberry moon!” I run to the deck but I’ve got too many trees. I...
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Maggie Stewart
May 11, 20202 min
Knots in A Chain
Over Mom’s Day I thought of my mom. My latest Quarantine Clean is the broken (but I just can’t throw away) jewelry drawer. (Does anyone...
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Maggie Stewart
Apr 15, 20203 min
Rosetta Stone of Love?
Chris shows love through doing. He cleans the snow off cars with vigor and care. He wants us to see out the windows when we drive away....
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Maggie Stewart
Mar 18, 20201 min
A Joke in the Morning Makes Good the Whole Day
A lot of friends are asking for something to laugh about....here is a story originally published in Chicago Parent. I hope it's not too...
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Maggie Stewart
Mar 5, 20202 min
Desire
“I’d like to slap her.” said a friend of mine who wouldn’t slap a mosquito biting her. A teacher told her son he couldn’t be a dancer....
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Maggie Stewart
Jan 13, 20202 min
Coupons
I don’t know why I clip coupons. I rarely use them. Clipping coupons and then actually using coupons is not for the faint of heart. For...
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Maggie Stewart
Nov 16, 20192 min
Love Is
It was softly snowing big fat flakes in Minnesota 34 years ago today when Chris and I got married. I wore my mom’s mink stole over my...
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Maggie Stewart
Nov 4, 20192 min
Sticky Notes
I leave a lot of notes. Sticky notes, lengthy notes, text notes. It’s a main ingredient of my mothering - sticking myself wherever I can...
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Maggie Stewart
Sep 5, 20192 min
Score Cards of Life
Our friend, Gary Burr, is a GIGANTIC Nashville singer/songwriter. He also writes hilarious email “musings”. Google him. garyburr.com....
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Maggie Stewart
Jul 13, 20192 min
Call The Curtain Guy!!
“Call curtain guy” has been on my to do list since last September when our bathroom project was complete. I do lists. Daily. And I am not...
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Maggie Stewart
Jul 2, 20192 min
Crooked
In pilates we lay face up on reformer machines. Our knees up. Lori, our wonderful instructor, explains the movement as she walks by me...
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