What’s to say that hasn’t already been said? But would I even BE a writer if I didn’t say what’s already been said a million times, but through the lens of my own experience? Today. …
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Strike
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Sometimes I don’t know what people are
It’s my time to join the throes of parents keeping little records on their phones of the absurd sort of poetic things that their toddlers say. I ask you, where do the mornings go? And …
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ISO
In Search Of: part time sitter to be with my daughter so that I can be with myself, get my work done, take care of myself, and my other kid, and be a wife, and …
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pins
If it’s ever the apocalypse and you and I are the last people on earth and it’s a battle to survive and one of us must eat the other so you’re hunting me like an …
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the dance
When I’m feeding / holding Bob, I’m constantly doing this dance with myself, feeling super present with her and just taking her in, gazing at her, feeling lucky and moved to tears, but then Bored, …
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This moment
I’m not a crafty person but I can’t resist the baby footprint thing, especially when Joe’s babysitter gave us a little kit for Bobbie. It was a rush job, but we got her done. Now …
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Kiss, and make it Better
Joe falls or bumps something or trips on one of his 47 cars or any part of his growing body and bumps something, cries. Me: Do you want me to kiss and make it better? …
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the rub
While waiting for what’s left of my meager breast milk to dry up, so that I can do what I need to do to stay Myself, I find myself weirdly wishing that my daughter needed …
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skincare routine
Facialist: so what’s your skincare routine? First I wash my face in the shower with a product that another face person, facialist? at some point recommended to me. The brand is Skin. Skin something. it …
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snarf
Verb; to Snarf; an entirely made up word that we invented because there was no other word that described the sounds a newborn makes at 4 in the morning when farting, dreaming, digesting, and sounding …