Tag Archives: Monica Stephenson

The importance of vulnerability

Rob Harmon sent me a link to Brene Brown‘s TED speech and I laughed so hard.  It was one of those cathartic crazy laughing things.  Brene Brown takes us on her personal research journey and then pulls everything together to show … Continue reading

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Snow day or Ahhh L-I-F-E

Woke up for my morning run and look. These little dashes of fine powder are falling on Seattle. The first snow of the year.  I have to get out there! The air is sharp.  It’s 5:15am.  Jogging around the square, … Continue reading

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Monica, David, Sophie & Annabel come over.

As we share our ambitions for Mad Cap, we enjoy the Puget Sound. Mad Cap is the name we’ve given the new house Monica has rented and sublet to Debbie, Catherine and I. We are all Evergreen moms working on … Continue reading

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And besides, they are DISTINCT!

An email just in from my good friend Monica about a conversation between Sophie (6) and Annabel (3) that she overheard: Petra, On the way home from camp today, I heard the following conversation in the backseat: Sophie: “Now I … Continue reading

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Mazama Migration 2010

Every Spring for a decade, we’ve been migrating north to sunny Mazama around the time of David’s birthday on May 25th. Our tribal gathering place is now Michal Friedrich’s Wesola Polana. You can see the rusty steel “Herd” lined up … Continue reading

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