The waiter hands me back my bill and credit card, with a little reverent bow, and great seriousness: Thank you, Mrs. Brunsteller. I humbly receive the items, doing a weird little bow myself, also with …
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Mrs. Brunsteller
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There are no Words
Joe’s first Easter. No words to describe the joy NO YOU’RE RIGHT, I AM A WRITER, SO I’LL TRY, but I refuse to make sentences. Suspenders Joy Grandparents Love Ham TINY SHOES AND PANTS relief …
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BUTT TRUTH
I just caught a glimpse of the actual size of my butt in a mirror, like an actual mirror, not a mirror in which I control my image of myself, and it cast great doubt …
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UNE PAIR DE PANTELONES
This tiny pair of yellow pants with planets on them kept appearing on Ads on my internets, AND SO I SUCCUMBED. Our kid now has one pair of pants. They are labeled 6-12 months I …
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That time we were Wimps
Me, complaining to my Mom on the phone yesterday: Our doctor won’t let Morrison be in the room for the next ultrasoundddddddd! Mom: (with genuine empathy) Oh, no! Me: It’s a precaution because of the …
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Oklahoma; Okay
I’m sure you already know this because it is OBVIOUSLY HOUSEHOLD INFORMATION, but I’ll say it anyways: Lynn Riggs was a part Cherokee playwright from Oklahoma, who wrote the play Green Grows the Lilacs, on …
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JE FRENCH NOW
I chopped my hair off and now I feel French. What does that even mean? Does it mean just, better than our regular selves? I’ll find out. Every meeting I go to now, I will pitch …
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I am Guilty Of
There’s a thing I do, as a contemporary robot person with robot computer phone brain and human heart, that I would like to stop doing. And so, like most things that I don’t enjoy about …
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Fantasy or Fever Dream?
This Thanksgiving will forever go down in history as That Time I Spent an Entire Year looking forward to hosting my own Thanksgiving in my own house for my Husband’s family, nearly a lifelong goal …
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Claydate
The members of my vintage YA book club and I are very much adult people, but we were once children who hid in our rooms from the sun, allergic to back sweat and socializing, instead …