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Things My Mom Was Right About
There was a brief period from about 1994-1996, when I was pretty sure I was being raised by idiots. Turns out I was wrong. Here are just a few of the five kabillion things my mom was right about… 1....
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Five Things Friday
Five of My Favourite-Ever Movie Scenes 1. Tom’s morning-after dance number from 500 Days of Summer. 2. Carl and Ellie’s love story from Up. 3. Princess Buttercup pushes Westley down a hill in The...
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The Fear
Last Friday, I made a list of things people have said to me recently about my pregnancy. Most of them were about my size, but one was just this: “Come out, Baby Dwight!” Before this past weekend, my...
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This Day
As I write this, Adlai is sleeping upstairs, and Koa is lying at my feet, cooing and shouting and occasionally puking or sounding like he’s going to need to be picked up soon, to be wound into the Moby...
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Sweet Relief
On Friday last week, only six days ago, I called Simon in tears while Adlai napped and Koa sat screaming in his bouncy seat. “I know God says He’ll give us what we need,” I sobbed, “but He doesn’t. I...
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To my boys, when I first learned how to love you
You are both asleep now, by some miracle. Adlai, you’ve learned how to catapult yourself over your crib railing, but I’ve learned that if I wear you out at the park in the morning, you won’t kick up...
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This Kind of Tired
Before Koa was born, I thought I was tired. When Simon and I point this out to each other, we laugh maniacally, and the laughter sometimes turns into hysterical crying. But I digress. I thought I was...
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In the Quiet
I laid beside him last night and we laughed, and tried to remember what it was like when it was only us. When we slept and ate and bathed in peace. In quiet. Uninterrupted. We went to work in the …...
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When Your Invitation Gets Lost in the Mail
In high school, there was an abandoned school bus in the woods where kids would go to party. Apparently. I tell my friends in England about it because they can’t believe how American it is. A school...
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Heartbreak makes you crazy.
She sat on a chair in my kitchen while I made brownies, and told me the story of him. Of how they’d fallen in love six years ago, of how he’d walked out on her the week before. “I was … Continue reading →
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