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  • Bitty Buddha 101: How (and Why) to Make a Mean Person Your Friend (from the Momplex Blog archive)

    I can’t count how many times someone’s called my first-grader a little Buddha. He’s an insightful little fart, often boiling down life’s tough stuff into the simplest terms from the backseat of my Hyundai. And he’s always unusually happy, even when his nose is bleeding like a scene from the Colosseum. One could argue that all first-graders have…

    Jenny

    August 28, 2015
    advice, friends, motherhood
    Bitty Buddha, Bullies, Friendship, Life Wisdom
  • You’re Doing It All Wrong: Parenting in the Information Age (from the Momplex Blog archive)

    To circumcise or not, to vaccinate or not, to breastfeed or not, to co-sleep or not: Parenting young kids has become a series of capital-W watershed choices that are presented as ways to make or break your child—physically, emotionally, developmentally. The stakes are always portrayed as the highest of high, with nearly every single debated…

    Jenny

    February 5, 2015
    motherhood
  • All Better (from the Momplex Blog archive)

    My son wept today. Even though he’s six, such displays are rare with him. The tears were over a Lego creation he worked on for maybe an hour, tops, something he very generously called a Transformer. To me, it looked like it could be a Lego anything: a building, a sandwich, a tribute to Tetris. “This right…

    Jenny

    December 3, 2014
    motherhood
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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

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  • 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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