My New Year’s resolution this year is to lower my expectations, which Morrison says sounds depressing, so we might also say simply, to try and do Less. So it’s totally, completely fine that the Christmas …
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January 2nd
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A girraft
I have much domestic news to report regarding a very merry Christmas, lumbar pain and a five hour flight to our long awaited babymoon, but I’m really going to give myself the present of BEING …
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my lap
Joe, most of the time, his entire life: Me: Joe, do you wanna sit on my lap and read a book? Joe: NO Me: Do you want a hug? Joe: NO Me: Do you want …
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medium old
I’m back at my Alma Mater, UNC chapel Hill, workshopping a play for Playmakers, and here she is, the Center for Dramatic Art, where I wrote my first plays and got many parking tickets and …
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do less
As I rifle through the Tetris of our freezer for breakfast sandwiches, wishing I’d had the time and forethought to make us a breakfast casserole, wincing from sciatic pain from lifting one kid while growing …
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21st century woman
Me to Morrison, after working to provide for our family while also growing another member of it but also I made a Chicken Enchilada Casserole for dinner, a big one that might feed us all …
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Who is Santa
I’ve been wondering how exactly to start the magic Santa lie with Joe, like do you just start…casually weaving Santa into conversation? Is it a sit down serious talk? Is there an online workshop I …
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I wanna get IN that
IT’S HAPPENING, IT’S FINALLY HAPPENING! We have entered what I suspected might be one of my favorite kid phases and I was so, so right. Joe has started absurd things that make zero sense but …
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Ma’am would you like to sit down
Last fall when I was fully a YEAR post partum, I was in NYC on the train, and a man got up and very humbly and kindly (and a little too proud of himself?) got …
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Jump to Recipe
Before I forget (and I probably will) two strong potential titles for my memoir are Jump to Recipe and Buy Now, as I am ALWAYS ALWAYS wanting to do domestic and pastoral things, whimsical and …