Christine Currie
Recent stories
- Christina M. Currie: Peewee politics
- November 7, 2008
- Nine-year-old cousin Isiac is moving to Canada. Or maybe Mexico.
- Christina Currie: Sugar and spice, that’s my girl
- October 24, 2008
- They say that girls are sugar and spice and everything nice. Boys, on the other hand, are snips and snails and puppy dog’s tails.
- Christina M. Currie: I think it’s called displacement
- August 8, 2008
- Puppy preschool ended with our little one lying comfortably under my chair, not barking at other dogs or pulling to get free.
- Christina M. Currie: An addition to the family
- June 20, 2008
- I’m not sure what the motivation was — to give my children something to do or to get a semi-unruly dog trained — but when a friend suggested that one of my girls participate in some agility training using her dog, I had to think about it for a few days.
- Christina M. Currie: It’s a trip
- April 25, 2008
- As I rush to close off as many loose ends as possible before my two girls and I leave for a week-long vacation, people keep asking “are you excited?”
- Christina M. Currie: Baby blues
- December 28, 2007
- I’ve seen studies that indicate the need to nurture is genetically ingrained in those with a female chromosome, and I’ve seen that need reflected in my two girls.
- Christina M. Currie: Meeting responsibilities
- October 12, 2007
- I was not quite 22 when I got my first taste of the role meetings play in how society functions. I can’t imagine sitting down and trying to calculate just how much of my time since then has been spent in meetings.
- Christina M. Currie: Little devils
- August 31, 2007
- Seven-year-old Katie was excited to open her folder to show me all the work she’s done as a second-grader. Considering the fact that I made her redo all the problems she missed on her math assignment, I doubt she’ll be as forthcoming in the future.
- Touch of Spice: Animal house
- August 17, 2007
- Ever since I couldn’t keep a strong grasp on the foot-long water snake startled awake by the lawnmower, the girls have bemoaned the fact that they don’t have a pet snake, belittled my snake-catching skills and basically called me a sissy.
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