This is one of Joe’s Montesorri toys, designed to teach him Object Permanence: the Concept that things still exist even when you can’t see them. Mostly he uses it to teach himself another very important …
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Object Permanence
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Heavy Metal
It came to light a few months back that there are potentially unsafe levels of metal in many baby foods, including, this just in, the ‘organic’ puree pouches we’ve been giving Joe for the last …
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Questions to Never Ask
I’ve been venturing out of the house more and more, even went up to Ojai for a night to finish a rewrite (THANK YOU MORRISON.) While there, TWO DIFFERENT WOMEN on TWO DIFFERENT DAYS asked …
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Mrs. Brunsteller
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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how Old am I
If you’re wondering how old I am, I am exactly old enough that when the the check out guy at CVS rings up my wine, and I say do you need to see my ID? …
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my salad, by Samuel Beckett
An exact transcript of myself and the gentleman who kindly delivered my lunch today, trying to find each other: Gentleman (on phone:) I’m here, I have your salad. Me: Where’s here? Gentleman. Here. I’m here. …
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HOW RELAXING
Me: There aren’t many things that I do truly for fun, that are truly relaxing to me. But MAGAZINES! I love to tuck into a magazine, particularly food magazines and Southern magazines and Southern Food …
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Vaccine, Vaccine, Vaccine Vaccinneeeeeee
QUEEN DOLLY RECEIVED HER MODERNA VACCINE YESTERDAY, adorably and rightfully declaring that she was literally receiving A taste of her own Medicine, as she helped fund the research for the vaccine because of course she …
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A Schedule
Joe has many favorite classic baby games these days, including Peekaboo, Roll the Ball, Yank out all hairs dangling from Mom’s head or Dad’s face, and then of course THE MOMENT THAT MOM GRASPS A …
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The Grays
One fun product of Pandemic and Pandemic pregnancy is my insane new hair, which is a fun combo of a year sans haircut, weird post-pregnancy baby hairs, lack of ever Doing hair Hair, frequency of …