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  • New Traditions: Acknowledging (and Celebrating) the Suck (from the Momplex Blog archive)

    Five years ago, my then-husband and I moved into separate homes within a short drive of each other and began the second phase of our forever-joined lives. Learning to be co-parents with the attendant emotional acrobatics of disentangling our souls through divorce wasn’t easy after 15-plus years together. But I was at least proud of…

    Jenny

    November 22, 2020
    motherhood
  • Have you COVID’ed your COVID today? (from the Momplex Blog archive)

    A lot has changed in the zillion years since I last wrote. Like right now, I’m sitting in my makeshift home office wearing a “What’s a Bra?” t-shirt that I wore to bed last night and also wore to several Skype work meetings today (video off, thank you very much). I’ve just finished playing another…

    Jenny

    August 21, 2020
    motherhood
  • Bitty Buddha 101: What to Do When You Meet Someone with a Bad Name (from the Momplex Blog archive)

    I think being part of the human tribe is hard, but for my seven-year-old Buddha, it seems kind of cake-walky. It’s not that nothing bad ever happens to him. I mean, a few weeks ago he breathlessly announced that he was pretty sure he’d met a bully at school. Yet his thrilled expression matched that of someone who’d spotted a Yeti. Some boy had…

    Jenny

    August 29, 2015
    advice
    Bitty Buddha
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About the Blog

Watch what happens when a pandemic-era, menopausal misanthrope tries to journal her way back to noticing simple beauties in a world where it’s easy to feel like everything’s broken and nothing works.

The Second Magpie is a joyfinding journal written by Jenny Fiore, author of Speaking to the Mountain, After Birth: Unconventional Writing from the Mommylands, and the former Momplex blog (some of which has been migrated here).

Popular Posts

  • New Traditions: Acknowledging (and Celebrating) the Suck (from the Momplex Blog archive)November 22, 2020
  • Have you COVID’ed your COVID today? (from the Momplex Blog archive)August 21, 2020
  • Bitty Buddha 101: What to Do When You Meet Someone with a Bad Name (from the Momplex Blog archive)August 29, 2015

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