Amber Hinds

Balancing Acts

  • A Family Portrait

    A Family Portrait

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    It’s amazing how much things can change in a year. Last year at this time, we were new parents, barely sure of what we were doing (now, we’re mostly sure…sometimes).  Last year, we sent out a Christmas card that was just one big picture of Miss Nora. We were nowhere to be found on that…

  • Nora, the Prison Guard

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    If you believe Erica Jong, this:is my 18 (21…25…?) year prison sentence. In case you missed it, in The Wall Street Journal ‘s “Saturday Essay” last weekend, Jong wrote about the evils of attachment and green parenting: You wear your baby, sleep with her and attune yourself totally to her needs. […] Add to this…

  • What Do You Do All Day?

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    Time is a really interesting thing.  When I was still working outside the home, it felt like the hours, days, and weeks just flew by.  At work, I would be so engrossed in what I was doing, I sometimes had to set a reminder to pop up on my computer and tell me to go…

  • Stormy Weather

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    We are in the middle of a hurricane.  Literally. This evening, Hurricane Earl made its way up the coast and hit our little spit of sand.  So far, it hasn’t turned out to be as bad as initially projected; last I heard, they were about to downgrade it to a tropical storm.  But it’s windy…

  • All Joy and Lots of Fun

    All Joy and Lots of Fun

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    Last week’s New York Magazine cover article “All Joy and No Fun: Why Parents Hate Parenting” was a real downer – in case you couldn’t figure that out by the title – and written by a journalist (and mother), Jennifer Senior, who definitely takes the glass half-empty approach. The article opens with a tale of…

  • Keeping House

    Keeping House

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    (A.K.A. Housewife Challenge #2) The house is done.  Everything is unpacked and put away, the pictures are hung, flowers are in the window boxes, and it’s clean. Or…it was clean.  You see, we don’t have a dishwasher.  Correction, we don’t have an electric dishwasher, we have me, the human dishwasher.  And if you know me,…

  • Mrs. Christopher Hinds

    Mrs. Christopher Hinds

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    In this week’s New York Times Magazine, Lisa Belkin wrote about the metamorphosis of married women’s identities, which lead to a discussion on her blog about what it means to be a good wife.  The magazine article is largely about the difference between Belkin’s mother’s identity as a wife and Belkin’s own identity, in contrast,…