a decade of us
The day before I first met the beau I spent a couple of hours after work at a Wet Seal-like store,...
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how to get a baby to nap
Dump your totally alert baby into its crib or bassinet and leave the room, shutting the door...
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up on task mountain
You hear a lot of platitudes about babies. But what you don’t often hear is that you (me)...
Read Morewhat they tell you
People have a lot of stuff to tell you about new babies. Everyone tells you: Is the baby fed? Then that’s enough! Perhaps this is meant as reassurance that it’s okay to merely survive. I can see that....
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the future is meow
On New Year’s Day in 2015 I somehow managed to start a new: bottle of lotion tube of lip...
Read Morea breech in several acts: act two
In part one I learned that I had a baby who was breech. ACT TWO: THE WEEK OF MAGICAL THINKING I went into my 35-week appointment thinking something felt different. I thought that the baby had almost certainly changed positions....
Read Morea breech in several acts: act one
Did you know? Babies can be breech. I knew this, intellectually, and yet I still sort of believed it was something that happened only to other people. So you can already see where this is going. ACT ONE: A WORLD OF NOPE At week...
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memoriam III
On Saturday morning, 51 years after John F. Kennedy was assassinated and the day before my 34th...
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the right stuff
I want stuff. I want so much stuff it’s stressing me out. Let me rephrase that. I want stuff...
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insight / hindsight
The thing about arriving at a new destination after sunset is that you’re left in the dark...
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enter title here
What’s a clever way to tell you I’m pregnant? Because I don’t have one. I have been trying to...
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all hallows hairs
I have been dicking around for what feels like forever with an almost empty shampoo bottle. Every...
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