Family Archives — EMMpress https://www.emmpress.com/category/family/ words and images for mindful humans Thu, 27 Aug 2026 20:52:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://www.emmpress.com/wp-content/uploads/cropped-Screenshot-2026-03-10-at-12.16.43-PM-32x32.png Family Archives — EMMpress https://www.emmpress.com/category/family/ 32 32 Sex & Death in the time of Kali Yuga https://www.emmpress.com/sex-death/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sex-death Sat, 22 Aug 2026 14:43:39 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=19297 I have 20 minutes to write this, so lucky for you, it should be short. When I was around 15 years old, my mother announced one random day,…

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]]> Acclimate https://www.emmpress.com/acclimate/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=acclimate Sun, 26 Apr 2026 17:29:46 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=17727 A Term of Endearment post with whiffs of ritual and how to help multi-dimensionally on difficult days. My mom is moving. Moved. The last few days consisted of…

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]]> What happened to the chicken bag? https://www.emmpress.com/what-happened-to-the-chicken-bag/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-happened-to-the-chicken-bag Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:51:00 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=17129 The types of explanations we received as kids about the mundane questions of life, alters how we develop our capacity for internal reasoning. Becoming educated with diversity of…

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]]> Sushi Bake Beliefs https://www.emmpress.com/sushi-bake-beliefs/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sushi-bake-beliefs Sat, 28 Mar 2026 13:57:40 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=16902 On Food Culture, Balls of Beliefs, Paradox, Music, and Menopause Yesterday my daughter found a recipe for a Sushi Bake, and I was immediately skeptical. Who wants to…

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]]> non-shop adventures and the underappreciated art of window shopping https://www.emmpress.com/non-shop-adventures-and-the-underappreciated-art-of-window-shopping/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=non-shop-adventures-and-the-underappreciated-art-of-window-shopping Fri, 06 Feb 2026 21:29:27 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=16261 Here’s a little story about non-shop adventures and participating in your local economy even when you aren’t flush with currency. It’s like flash-mobbing a business you love, but…

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]]> Generational Curse Breaking for an Everyday Lady https://www.emmpress.com/generational-curse-breaking-for-an-everyday-lady/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=generational-curse-breaking-for-an-everyday-lady Mon, 24 Nov 2025 20:37:08 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=14641 Disclaimer: in order to do this, you don’t actually have to be a lady. I am case in point. I’m also not recommending you believe in curses per…

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]]> Mapping: meeting what you need on the checkerboard of life – with art project https://www.emmpress.com/mapping-meeting-what-you-need-on-the-checkerboard-of-life/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mapping-meeting-what-you-need-on-the-checkerboard-of-life Thu, 25 Sep 2025 13:25:55 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=14070 On the checkerboard of life, the right thing is finding its way to you, as you are to it.~ My Mom Artwork: No Title by the author 2024…

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]]> Over-Unders for the Sandwich Generation https://www.emmpress.com/over-unders-for-the-sandwich-generation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=over-unders-for-the-sandwich-generation Sun, 21 Sep 2025 15:27:38 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=13932 IE the gamble of choosing material renunciation as a middle-class, middle-generation American. Sitting here squarely in a middle class “sandwich generation,” I’ve noticed a few things. Trying to…

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]]> Mother of https://www.emmpress.com/mother-of/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mother-of Mon, 08 Sep 2025 16:38:22 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=13891 I was out late last night at a concert with my teenager. Total bonding experience, and great to see how even punk and goth music can still send…

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]]> If it’s brown… https://www.emmpress.com/if-its-brown/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=if-its-brown Sat, 06 Sep 2025 14:31:54 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=13848 There’s a bell in the bathroom at my mom’s house. Like one of those “ring for service,” bells that dings when you slap it. Because there’s more than…

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]]> Band of Brothers https://www.emmpress.com/band-of-brothers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=band-of-brothers Sun, 31 Aug 2025 12:05:47 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=13809 A few weeks ago, a solid, insightful, kind and loving man from my home town took his own life. I knew him a little, and what I knew…

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]]> The inhumanity of over-helpfulness https://www.emmpress.com/the-inhumanity-of-over-helpfulness/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-inhumanity-of-over-helpfulness Sun, 17 Aug 2025 11:30:30 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=13744 In my digital world, where AI is proliferating, technological “helpfulness” can sanitize language between humans to the point where it is blocking real human-to-human communication. Let me explain.…

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]]> Good Mourning https://www.emmpress.com/good-mourning/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=good-mourning Tue, 05 Aug 2025 11:34:00 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=13725 Originally Published Via newsletter on 8/5/2025 I’ve been thinking a of writing a series of good morning letters in honor of my mom, who was Yelp before there…

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]]> Good Morning Letter https://www.emmpress.com/good-morning-letter/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=good-morning-letter Thu, 31 Jul 2025 12:59:21 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=13622 Dear Younger One, Your mom asked me to write. She said you were doing pretty well. I’m glad. I also heard you are afraid of growing up. Turning…

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]]> The toilet in my back yard https://www.emmpress.com/the-toilet-in-my-back-yard/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-toilet-in-my-back-yard Fri, 20 Jun 2025 18:45:20 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=13110 And the knowing that comes from an ‘in house’ metaphor. Last month, we cashed in some Apple shares to have a friend’s brother fix our bathroom. The floor…

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]]> Nunsense https://www.emmpress.com/nunsense/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nunsense Sat, 31 May 2025 12:30:35 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=12828 When I was 16, a defecting nun came to stay with us. She was young and full of verve and vigor. She had been running the church-y teenager…

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]]> Feeling Free on the Mother of all days https://www.emmpress.com/feeling-free-on-the-mother-of-all-days/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feeling-free-on-the-mother-of-all-days Sun, 11 May 2025 15:37:10 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=12093 Sunday is Mothers Day and I’m going to try again to divest myself of all planned work, chores, conversations, and responsibilities; while avoiding expectant smiles about having a…

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]]> Ma-stalgia: a term of endearment for ascendant generations https://www.emmpress.com/ma-stalgia-a-term-of-endearment/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ma-stalgia-a-term-of-endearment Sun, 04 May 2025 13:22:53 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=12048 Nostalgia as sign it’s time to reboot our childlike sense of self, and how being states help us cope with a heightened sense of responsibility. My brother sent…

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]]> The Fairness Container https://www.emmpress.com/the-fairness-container/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-fairness-container Wed, 23 Apr 2025 13:58:16 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=11663 As a mom of a 12 and 15 year old, I often get to hear pissy words about fairness. Last week’s rollick of a road trip, there were…

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]]> Nurse Maid Bird | Movie Mode https://www.emmpress.com/nurse-maid-bird-movie-mode/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nurse-maid-bird-movie-mode Wed, 12 Feb 2025 22:39:40 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=10335 I shouldn’t be happy when my 15 year old daughter is home sick, but I am. I delight in getting to take care of her because there are…

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]]> Orienting a Day https://www.emmpress.com/orienting-a-day/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=orienting-a-day Thu, 26 Dec 2024 14:07:30 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=9246 I love the term orientation. It’s connected to my past and my future. And now all at once. The days I choose to orient around “love” or “hope,”…

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]]> Naming, Angels, and Missing Sisters https://www.emmpress.com/names-angels-and-missing-sisters/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=names-angels-and-missing-sisters Tue, 26 Nov 2024 16:28:54 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=8679 Can anyone truly see what’s missing? It’s a paradoxical view. What’s in a name? One of my teachers told me folks with the last name DeAngelis or DiPrete…

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]]> Gail Force https://www.emmpress.com/gail-force/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gail-force Fri, 22 Nov 2024 15:07:50 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=8479 Gail lived with us for several months when I was five years old. Gail was 15 years old at the time, an avid 1970s free spirit, a pot…

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]]> A Burning Bridge to Now-here https://www.emmpress.com/bridge-to-now-here/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bridge-to-now-here Thu, 24 Oct 2024 17:17:55 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=8007 My favorite candle sits on my dining room table. It’s inside opaque black glass and sits on its own wooden cover like a little pedestal. I refer to…

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]]> Ordinary Abortion Story https://www.emmpress.com/ordinary-abortion-story/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ordinary-abortion-story Wed, 16 Oct 2024 19:56:57 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=7746 If you know me at all, you know I try to let my work speak for itself, and I don’t like to reveal myself clearly online. It’s scary…

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]]> What is God? https://www.emmpress.com/what-is-god/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-is-god Sun, 13 Oct 2024 15:19:45 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=7670 I asked my 11 year old son on our walk this morning, after a long ramble through the woods where we talked about the philosophy of cross country…

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]]> Protected: when ‘us’ turns 20 https://www.emmpress.com/when-us-turns-20/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=when-us-turns-20 Mon, 07 Oct 2024 15:48:14 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=7547 There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

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]]> Speculation vs Decision: guarantee certainty and mitigate risk by front-loading choices https://www.emmpress.com/speculation-vs-decision-guarantee-certainty-and-mitigate-risk-by-front-loading-choices/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=speculation-vs-decision-guarantee-certainty-and-mitigate-risk-by-front-loading-choices Mon, 10 Jun 2024 15:54:45 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=5259 My eleven year old wakes up early and likes to go on woods-walks with me most days before school. Today, we figured out when choosing between two potential…

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]]> Teddy Talk https://www.emmpress.com/ted-talk/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ted-talk Tue, 05 Mar 2024 17:30:41 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=4321 Around 5 years ago, we needed to put down our dog Teddy. My son just today asked me where Teddy really is. At the time we had told…

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]]> Personal transformation is the only miracle recognized as such by the Buddha https://www.emmpress.com/personal-transformation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=personal-transformation Sun, 04 Feb 2024 19:21:47 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=3465 Stories from mine: When I feel raw and tired, I call my Aunt BahBah – the peace wrangler of the family. Her last name is Lamb, and sheep,…

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]]> toney atone: my family goals https://www.emmpress.com/toney-atone-my-family-goals/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=toney-atone-my-family-goals Sat, 28 Oct 2023 12:18:38 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=3249 There are a few things I’ve been saying to my family,  hoping they’ll see things I see as problems and make “us” feel better. No one has wanted…

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]]> unsolicited something for ya https://www.emmpress.com/unsolicited-wisdom-for-ya/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=unsolicited-wisdom-for-ya Thu, 26 Oct 2023 17:58:07 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=3218 on Vulnerablity, Shame, and Energy Exchange Dear Young Adult,  Last night you said that you felt I shamed you when I pointed out bad posture, or mimicked behaviors…

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]]> Dear Young Fury, https://www.emmpress.com/dear-young-fury/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dear-young-fury Wed, 06 Sep 2023 13:27:51 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=3059 You are in the hospital, intubated after your 5th attempt, and I still have yet share this truth with you. I hope it helps you know yourself and…

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