Hello world! (now how can you beat a title like THAT?)

I just barely had poor old Mama Chronicles up and running and separate from rinzai.com, which is really and truly my husband’s site, when I just found myself dragging to write it. Part of the reason had something to do with the title — somehow it feels like there should be some soft focus pastels with my kids saying adorable things and doing the darnedest things, and, shoot that’s just not who I am. I mean, my kids say cute things and do darned things in the superlative, and sometimes I want to write about it. I’m with them all the time, and so they do get prominent real estate in my mind. But that couldn’t possibly be who I am, or even how I really want to present myself to the world. Maybe my blog title is the victim of my...

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Posted by Mara Collins on Jun 29, 2007 | 2 comments

Cute

So if a certain four year old is a pirate captain, to what role is his brother consigned? “He’s my hardy.” As in, “Avast ye, me hardies!” Clearly Soren has not been studying piratese on this website since they leave that term out.

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Posted by Mara Collins on Jun 14, 2007 | 1 comment