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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the shoulder
I used to wonder when I might really actually feel like a Mother, but now I know the moment is this: it’s when the baby is old enough to know you, sense you, need you, …
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I am a person
I used to wonder if becoming a Mother meant your brain would be less full of tiny meaningless worries and insecurities, and while I find this to be SLIGHTLY true, yesterday I spent a solid …
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Mo and Joe
I’m realizing now that before we had our own, Morrison’s sister Emily’s boy, also named Morrison, was kind of the dream boy of my heart. Gentle and kind and just a little weird. Yesterday, my …
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Alina
A friend story: I met Alina back in 2016, on a Jetblue flight from NYC back to LA. One of those massive Summer storms was moving in, so the plane taxied out and returned to …
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The Painting and the Statue
The other night, this old picture popped up in the weird ‘here are you picture memories’ phone thing. It’s from a 2015 trip to Palm Springs with my forever friend Elizabeth (WHO IS STILL THIS …
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A Day
Pandemic days bleed into each other, so I like to mark the holidays, the special ones that wear a blocked colored hat on my google calendar, with a Festive Pajama, so that looking back, we …
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I got these at the farmer’s market
I’ve been going to the Farmer’s Market in Pasadena every weekend, for something to do and somewhere to go, outside and relatively safe, and to support local farmers. Not only do I procure fresh produce, …
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Crying at Work
I am literally the last person in the world to watch Brene Brown’s Netflix special, The Call to Courage, so I will also be literally the last person to share what I gleaned from it. …
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we Do what we Do
My new favorite superhero action movie is actually a Netflix docuseries about doctors at a hospital in Manhattan: an OB who delivers babies while carrying her own, an ER doctor who is moreso a social …