by Laurie Rockenbeck | Apr 6, 2012 | Parenting
I’m sitting alone in the dining room of a quaint Vermont B&B at a table with a coffee next to my ipad. Emma is asleep upstairs in our yellow and flower wallpapered room. Actually, I hope she’s up and getting dressed because the smells emenating from...
by Laurie Rockenbeck | Dec 30, 2011 | Parenting, Uncategorized, Working Out
“Bring it” is a phrase that I didn’t use growing up or as a teen or even as a young adult. As a matter of fact, it’s not really part of my vocabulary at all, but the phrase has attitude. That’s what I need right now is a little bit of...
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by Laurie Rockenbeck | Dec 5, 2011 | Cooking, Parenting
Until about three years ago, I wouldn’t eat a fried or poached egg. It had to be scrambled or hardboiled, and the hardboiled yoke bit had to be mixed with something to make it less chalky. If I was served a fried egg, I would cut the white part carefully free of...
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by Laurie Rockenbeck | Oct 4, 2011 | Blogging, Parenting, Uncategorized
I’ve had one of those mornings. You know the kind I’m talking about. Everyone was crabby in the morning. We were all snapping at each other, and I found myself overly annoyed at my husband for putting my Farmer John’s cookbook on the bottom shelf of...
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by Laurie Rockenbeck | Aug 19, 2011 | Parenting
When I was a child, getting into the car every summer is something we just did. With six of us and family across the country, summer vacation was all about visiting family, and not so much about traveling. In spite of our recent Irish road trip, It’s not...
by Laurie Rockenbeck | Jun 18, 2011 | Parenting, Writing
Before we left, I purchased a four pack of Moleskines, the now ubiquitous writer’s friend. I discovered their supple bindings, their stay open lined pages, and their generally pleasing aesthetics years ago. I’ve often carried one of the smaller varieties...
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