Comments for Margot Merrill

Comment on Your rose, your thorn, and your bud by mk1201

mk1201 — Fri, 04 May 2012 04:43:02 +0000

But you DO create beautiful things (I can think of two especially that stand out!), and you help people, and you HAVE changed the world, and you ARE a wonderful parent. OK, maybe not all the time… you can have Tuesdays and Sundays off….

Comment on Your rose, your thorn, and your bud by cat

cat — Thu, 03 May 2012 18:35:46 +0000

loved this post!! i’m going to do it.

Comment on Your rose, your thorn, and your bud by Margot

Margot — Wed, 02 May 2012 20:52:14 +0000

Thank you my friends. Even more rewarding that writing something like this is knowing that others can feel it and relate. And that you love me. I love you too!

Comment on Your rose, your thorn, and your bud by Erin

Erin — Wed, 02 May 2012 19:38:16 +0000

Lovely, just lovely, and exactly what I needed to read today. Exactly what I need to read every day, actually. Because you can’t just learn it one. Hurray for you! Hurray for us all!

Comment on Your rose, your thorn, and your bud by cindy

cindy — Wed, 02 May 2012 19:37:30 +0000

wow! how profound and so honest! i love that about you! i am totally going to steal that rose, thorn, bud thing from you, because i think it’s a way of getting kids (boys especially) to open up. I finally learned that about lowering my expectations, and it has helped me to better deal with stuff that is going on and it make life much easer to manage. it doesn’t make me feel better tho to berate myself all the time, but i gotta work on that one too! good luck my friend. we really need to catch up!

Comment on Yay, vulnerability. Yay. by Margot

Margot — Wed, 02 May 2012 05:55:16 +0000

Ha ha. At least I laughed when I read this Dave. Gracias.

Comment on Yay, vulnerability. Yay. by Margot

Margot — Wed, 02 May 2012 05:54:23 +0000

Thank you honeypot.

Comment on Yay, vulnerability. Yay. by Jenny

Jenny — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 19:39:47 +0000

Love this:

“So if you read this, and see me, don’t bother trying to tell me the solution. Just give me a hug.”

*hug*
j

Comment on Yay, vulnerability. Yay. by Dave Seawell

Dave Seawell — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 05:46:20 +0000

Hey Margot! You should just…drink. That’s the alpha and omega of:

Parenting Advice
Work/life balance struggles
And Marital Counseling

I find it to be as statistically effective (which is to say not very) as anything else that I have been told to do by someone else who has no idea what factors are in play, and the nuance of the difficulties I’m Facing.
I’ll keep a good thought though and raise a glass.
Best, Dave

Comment on You know you’re a parent when… by Margot

Margot — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:22:30 +0000

Muah ha ha. Yer makin’ me laugh. Thanks! Got some good responses on FB too, will add them soon.