Lately (always?) I’ve had trouble falling asleep, I can’t turn my brain off and / or just lay there looking at Joe’s little butt in the monitor hoping he won’t be up at 5 again, …
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The Heart
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The Ceremony
Us, to Joe, ceremoniously: Joe, look! We have gathered all of your pacifiers here. You’re growing up, so you don’t need them anymore. We’re going to say goodbye to them. We’re going to put them …
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The Anniversary Game ™
Five years felt like a Thing, so Morrison and I headed to a Malibu hotel SANS JOE for a night. It just so happens that the hotel is also a wedding venue, and there were …
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Pants
Since having Joe, I’ve been a real journey trying to find pants that fit. More like post-PANTSdum amiright? ANYONE? ANYONE? I have searched low and high, I have tread from the sale sections at at …
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Glass Pumpkins
Thumbing through my North Carolina Our State Magazine this morning, wishing its pages of Blue Ridge Mountain pictures were one of Bert’s murals that I could leap into, I came across a beautiful spread of …
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Traditionnnnnnnsss, Traditions!
Every time I come to NYC for work, regardless of how long I’ve spent pre-travel obsessively checking the Accuweather extended forecast, I like to do this thing where I don’t bring the right shoes so …
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we are here
Q: have I been away from New York just long enough that walking its streets makes me wax poetic like a little old baby Joan Didion in athleisure pants? A: OBVIOUSLY. My favorite thing to …
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a Rainbow
We were greeted this morning by 40 seconds of rain, and then a BEAUTIFUL RAINBOW, fully arcing over our backyard. Me, to the Rainbow: A RAINBOW! There was a rainbow the morning of our wedding! …
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30
Facebook just reminded me of this moment, 9 years ago. I was about to turn 30 or had just turned 30 so I grabbed my sheerest Forever 21 blouse and asked my friend Maggie to …
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More
I’ve listened to enough Terry Gross Fresh Air interviews to have a pretty sturdy fantasy in which I go on the show and Terry asks me her thoughtful, direct, unearthing and sometimes awkward questions. The …