Age is just a number, declared the woman as she turned 39, somehow still in her middle thirties, as middle thirties in fact last until the very last second of the day before you turn …
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my brand
I have a brand, or maybe it’s my essence? Or a pattern? It’s Whimsical Food Accidents. I cannot tell you how many times I’ve stained myself or my clothes or an important document in some …
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Robot Assistants
Taking Joe for a walk early this morning, we were trailed by a Garbage truck, groaning and shouting itself as it digested its chicken bones and pieces of computer and documents and what sounded like …
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THIRST
Me, walking around my neighborhood in my new favorite T-shirt, as I pass any neighbor: HI! GOOD MORNING! Neighbor: (barely audible, with a tired smile): …Morning. Me: GOOD MORNING! DO YOU SEE MY SHIRT? Neighbor …
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the Look
May I please direct your attention to baby Morrison, center, serving me the EXACT look he gives me every time I repeat myself, ask him when the new refrigerator door is coming and has he …
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if you teach a baby to drink
I want to apologize for the lack of diversity of content on my blog for the last…nine months? But I also know that if you slice open my brain my right now, out would seep …
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Blogs are the new Bangs
It has occurred to me recently that blogging kind of peaked around 2015 and is no longer cool anymore, and instead everyone is tweeting and twitting and twerking and fracking and tik toking. Instead of …
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Ball
Joe, quite innocently and suddenly, one morning: …Ball. Morrison: GET IN HERE. JOE SAID A WORD, HE SAID BALL. I run into the room like the rest of the house is on fire. Morrison, to …
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A Spider
I don’t claim to fully grasp the intricacies of the conflict between Israel and Palestine, but it does seem like when Palestine throws a rock over the fence, Israel drops an 800 pound bomb on …
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how to make friends
Joe had his first official playdate yesterday with Leo, another 8.5 month old (not pictured here, so as to not go willy nilly posting pictures of other people’s kids.) He’s seen other kids, but none …