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Tonight – We are performing at Lit Crawl
October 19th — Lit Crawl: Let Go or Be Dragged We’re reading at Phase One of the Lit Crawl! Come see us kick off the Crawl at La Cumbre 515 Valencia St in San Francisco’s Mission District from 6pm to...
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Blackberry Hill
Summer is waning. I see it in the maple leaves in our front yard, gold and rusty red. A first this fall, ALL my kids are in school; the twins in kindergarten and their brother in first grade. While...
View ArticleThe Best of the Best 2013 – T is for Thanks
In a fit of utter madness, the Write On Mamas decided to enter the A-Z Blog Challenge once again in April. This is when you post on a different letter of the alphabet on each day of April. We managed...
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D is for Dog
Welcome to the Write On, Mamas! We are a writing group based in the San Francisco North Bay area. We will have 25 Mamas and one Papa writing on a different letter of the alphabet during the A-Z Blog...
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P is for Penis
Photography by Mary Allison Tierney “Boys are better than girls because they have penises,” my four-year-old-son Bryce announced during breakfast one morning. Glaring at his two- year-old-sister, he...
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T is for Temper
Photography by Mary Allison Tierney I was eavesdropping at the bus stop, on kids waiting to go to elementary school: “Max got a stop. He got like so mad, coz coz Sebastian flushed his hat,” says the...
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Father’s Day
“Boo!” my ten-year old screamed as she leaped from behind the concrete staircase. Landing in the middle of the sidewalk, she grinned and spread her arms to block me, my three siblings and our...
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Triggers
Trigger: an act or event that serves as a stimulus and initiates or precipitates a reaction or series of reactions. My friend, Nancy, warned me about triggers while I was in San Jose del Cabo, Mexico,...
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Seconds Matter
By the time the third tire blew we were somewhere near Preston and we spun twice across two lanes of traffic. Three of us were in Andy’s Fiat Panda, a two-door hatchback. Andy was driving, J was in...
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To Bribe or Not to Bribe?
Parenting is obviously a delicate balance, a dance even, between bribing and threatening our kids to do what we want them to do. My mother once bribed, er, encouraged my son with $5 for each ‘A’ on...
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The bathroom is alive with the sound of music
The bathroom is alive with the sound of music at 6 a.m. on a Sunday morning. I hear my five-year-old daughter’s voice coming from the bathroom attached to our master bedroom. The house is dark and she...
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Of Soap and Tears
It was a tough summer for my parents. At the tender age of eight, I had picked up some colorful vocabulary at day camp. I routinely wowed them in the kitchen with four-letter epithets, only to have my...
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Cooking with Petite
We are delighted to welcome a previous member of Write On Mamas, Tamar McLachlan, who moved to live in Italy and now runs luxury stays in the beautiful countryside in Piemonte as well as writing and...
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My Son - Going His Own Way
My son, Tom, has always been a bit of a handful. Never one to follow the crowd, he ploughs his own very muddy and individual furrow. But especially, when it comes to school, he has been a complete...
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