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Essays: About Home

essays about home

written by: Nancy Shohet West


essays about home  Carlisle Mosquito, October 15, 2010:
   “As the camera sees us”

essays about home  Carlisle Mosquito, September 17, 2010:
   “It's a tradition...or not”

essays about home  Carlisle Mosquito, August 27, 2010:
   “A calf arrives, but the work isn't over”

essays about home  Carlisle Mosquito, June 5, 2009:
   “Compliments from the mouths of babes”

essays about home  Carlisle Mosquito, April 10, 2009:
   “When my child started music lessons, I learned something too”

essays about home  Carlisle Mosquito, March 13, 2009:
   “Dressed for success”

essays about home  Carlisle Mosquito, January 30, 2009:
   “Never mind tech support, I’ll just ask my kids”

essays about home  Carlisle Mosquito, November 28, 2008:
   “Misgivings aside, a pet makes family life happier, not harder”

essays about home  Carlisle Mosquito, October 31, 2008:
   “We’re a generation of electronic multi-taskers – but we’re still attentive parents”

essays about home  Carlisle Mosquito, September 26, 2008:
   “Make new friends but scare the old (with your enthusiasm at seeing them again)”

essays about home  Carlisle Mosquito, July 2008:
   “One mom, two kids, five wheels”

essays about home  Carlisle Mosquito, May 7, 2010:
   “A morality play unfolds at the bagel shop”

essays about home  Carlisle Mosquito, June 4, 2010:
   “What the dog did on our April vacation”

essays about home  Boston Globe, March 7, 2010:
   “The agony of family homework”

essays about home  Boston Globe, January 24, 2008:
   “A mother finds it’s possible to combine her best selves”

essays about home  Boston Globe, November 15, 2007:
   “My house is filled to rafters with 5-year-old’s extended family”

essays about home  Boston Globe, September 6, 2007:
   “The best advice often comes in short form”

essays about home  Boston Globe, August 23, 2007:
   “My 8-year-old – girded like a gladiator”

essays about home  Boston Globe, August 5, 2007:
   “Desk is cherished for its memories”

essays about home  Boston Globe, January 25, 2007:
   “Boys’ poker night is heaven for the girl”

essays about home  Boston Globe, June 15, 2006:
   “Longing for the playtime of another era”

essays about home  Boston Globe, October 20, 2005:
   “Baking creates recipe for simple pleasures”

 

essays about home  Essays: About Home

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Book Excerpt

Between August 15th of 2007 and August 15th of 2008, the members of my immediate family turned 41 (me), 40 (Rick), 9 (Tim) and 6 (Holly), respectively.

The war in Iraq reached its fifth anniversary and accrued a total of 4,000 casualties. Benazir Bhutto, prime minister of Pakistan, was assassinated. The Boston Red Sox won their second 21st-century World Series championship. In an unprecedented presidential campaign season that focused on issues ranging from health care to illegal immigration to how to fix the mortgage crisis, a female senator and an African-American senator made history.

And my son Tim and I ran at least one mile every single one of those 366 days. (It was a Leap Year.)

Here’s how. And why.

Excerpt from Nancy's book about her son, their running streak, and how it changed them.


Listen to Nancy and Tim's recent interview on NPR's
"The Story", hosted by
Dick Gordon.