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Life in the Sandwich

Retired Columns

From “Life in the Sandwich” to “Special Needs Mama” to “Zen and the Art of Child Maintenance”—they’re all here for you to explore.

More Filling, With Snake

Having housemates reminds me of the times that we’ve opened our home in the past — various friends, a few relatives (niece and cousin), and once an entire extended family…

Life in the Sandwich | February 2010 | By Susan Ito


Home

So here it is. She’s going to have a place called “home” thousands of miles from where her family lives.

Life in the Sandwich | January 2009 | By Susan Ito


Tradition? Tradition!

To build a set of traditions can be a joyful thing, but to dismantle them can be heartbreaking. And yet some shifting and evolving of tradition is necessary as children…

Life in the Sandwich | December 2008 | By Susan Ito


Homecoming

It’s been an amazing journey, this learning to live without our newly adult daughter who just voted in her first election, two thousand miles away.

Life in the Sandwich | November 2008 | By Susan Ito


Letting Go

I don’t want to be pregnant again. I don’t want any more babies, or toddlers, or preschoolers, or even young school aged children. My dream was to adopt teenagers. Yes,…

Life in the Sandwich | October 2008 | By Susan Ito


Packing

I dreaded this last month, felt that our connection would just snap irrevocably, and she would drift away into her life like a bear cub on an ice floe.

Life in the Sandwich | August 2008 | By Susan Ito


My Mustard Valentine

I could hear the pages turning and then his inhalation: “Here….” Slowly, he read the words of Martin Luther King, one of his more obscure sermons. His voice cracked open…

Life in the Sandwich | February 2008 | By Susan Ito


Reading Ahead

The rub is, of course, that you can read all you want, but nothing fully prepares you. You don’t know what it’s really like to parent, until that baby is…

Life in the Sandwich | January 2008 | By Susan Ito


Happy Birthday, Mom, Whatever Day It Is

She used to be at the center of our family, running things, shopping, driving around, hosting large holiday parties with dozens of relatives. Those days are now the Ghost of…

Life in the Sandwich | December 2007 | By Susan Ito


Tremors

My fingers hover over the “Find out more” button…. I don’t know what lies ahead. I don’t know if we’ll ever have more than two daughters, or if we’ll live…

Life in the Sandwich | November 2007 | By Susan Ito


The Last Birthday Party

And then it was over. I didn’t cry like I thought I might, but when the last girl went home and the helium-filled balloons started drooping, I sighed too. Seventeen…

Life in the Sandwich | October 2007 | By Susan Ito


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