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Tag Archives: motherhood
New column: “Shower shoes, tears: It’s time for summer camp”
This week’s newspaper column is about the fact that I have let my 8 year-old daughter go to sleepaway camp, 3 hours away, for the first time. And I’m wondering if I’ve lost my mind. So summer, camp, kids, parenting, … Continue reading
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Tagged Asheville Citizen-Times, children, CNF, creative nonfiction, daughter, daughters, essay, first time, girls, homesickness, hope, independence, Katherine Scott Crawford, kids, mama, motherhood, overnight camp, parenthood, parenting, personal, sleepaway, STEM, summer camp, The Greenville News, WNC
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New column: “30 ingredients for an old-fashioned summer”
Summer is coming! Let’s do it the old-fashioned way–with (mostly) free, simple pleasures for young and old. I’ve a bunch of ideas in this week’s newspaper column. Thirty, to be exact. Thanks for reading! To read, click here.
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Tagged amwriting, Asheville Citizen-Times, childhood, children, columnist, creative nonfiction, essay, fatherhood, ingredients, ingredients for old-fashioned summer, Katherine Scott Crawford, kids, lightning bugs, motherhood, newspaper columnist, old-fashioned, parenting, recipe, summer, summer fun, summer in the South, summer is coming, summertime, The Greenville News, things to do, writer
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New column: “It’s time to donate the tiny toddler clothes, and big tears are falling”
Recently I decided it was time to pull my daughters’ baby and toddler clothes down from the attic, and give them away. I don’t know what I was thinking. The agony. So this, parenting, kids, childhood, memories, and more, in … Continue reading
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Tagged Asheville Citizen-Times, baby clothes, bittersweet, childhood, children, columnist, donating clothes, fatherhood, Gannett, hand me downs, Katherine Scott Crawford, kids, memories, motherhood, newspaper column, parenting, preschool, tears, The Greenville News, toddlers, USA Today, writing newspaper column
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New column: “The view from my porch desk”
Spring has got me all nutty. I forgot to post last week’s newspaper column, which is about making my move to the desk on my front porch … where I can see the world go by. This might be a … Continue reading
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Tagged Asheville Citizen-Times, clutter, CNF, column, columnist, creative nonfiction, desk, essay, Katherine Scott Crawford, life, motherhood, newspaper, observing, parenting, porch, privacy, The Greenville News, watching the world go by, writing, writing desk
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New column: “April’s forecast: sunny with a chance of grumpy”
April isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. So this, spring, life, poetry, and more, in my newspaper column this week. Hope y’all enjoy it! To read, click here.
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Tagged April, Asheville Citizen-Times, column, columnist, Edna St Vincent Millay, Katherine Scott Crawford, kids, motherhood, newspaper column, parenting, poems, poetry, quotes, Robert Frost, seasons, spring, springtime, T.S. Eliot, the cruellest month, The Greenville News
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New column: “The moody month of March is a teenaged girl”
Hi, folks, My newspaper column this week is all about the unpredictable month of March. Which I liken to a teenaged girl, having been one myself. Sadly, there are absolutely no photos of my teenaged years to share. I hope … Continue reading
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Tagged Asheville Citizen-Times, CNF, columnist, creative nonfiction, essay, girls, Katherine Scott Crawford, life, March, motherhood, newspaper column, parenting, quotes, raising girls, seasons, spring, teenagers, The Greenville News, unpredictable, weather, womanhood, zits
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America’s children are out of time
“America’s children are out of time” Because of print deadlines, I turn in my newspaper columns a week before they’re published. This piece was written over a week ago. On Tuesday the college where I teach was placed on lockdown, … Continue reading
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Tagged America's children are out of time, Asheville Citizen-Times, CNF, college, creative nonfiction, education, essay, fear, Florida, gun control, gun safety, Katherine Scott Crawford, kids, lockdown, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, motherhood, parenting, Parkland, school safety, school shooting, teachers, teaching, The Greenville News
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New column: “Pay attention to me!”
Actually, the newspaper changed the title of this week’s column to “Every mom faces a precarious balancing act,” but I’m a temperamental artist and I like mine better. If I had my druthers, the title would read, “Every parent faces … Continue reading
New column: “Raising a sensitive child … when you’re a sensitive parent”
Parenting is not for sissies. Most especially when we see our own struggles manifest in the people we love most in the universe: our kids. So this, parenting, life, children, sensitivity, and more, in my newspaper column this week. I hope y’all … Continue reading
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Tagged Asheville Citizen-Times, childhood, children, columnist, creative nonfiction, emotional outburst, empathy, essay, fatherhood, heredity, Katherine Scott Crawford, kids, life, motherhood, newspaper column, parenting, personal, personality, raising kids, sensitivity, sensory processing, The Greenville News, thin skin
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New column: “My grown-up Christmas wish”
Preparations. I don’t know about y’all, but I am in the midst of them: preparing for the end of the college semester–which means grading papers and projects–and for Christmas, which involves everything you can imagine when you are a woman … Continue reading
