I think birthdays are big freaking deals. I don’t care how old you are. It’s a day to make the birth person feel loved and loved hard. And so the fact that I have to …
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HAPPY OUR BIRTHDAY
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pre-pregnant
We are not yet trying to multiply ourselves, but moreso just in the beginning stages of preparing for that stage of life, which is to say, we are pre-pregnant, a term that I keep using …
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Human Paintings
My co-worker pointed out that I kinda hit up the Emmy’s dressed like one of my favorite paintings: Madame X, John Singer Sargent’s scandalous portrait of Amelie Gartreau: As for Morrison, he showed up as …
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The Narrative
If you’re going to be a couple who does Photobooths, which is to say, just a couple who is alive and in any sort of city right now as they are EVERYWHERE AS WE ARE …
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THIS IS FAM
I fully acknowledge that the Pearsons are fictional characters and not actual people, but LOOK AT THIS BEAUTIFUL TV FAMILY. It’s so awesome to witness the actual family they have created amongst each other as …
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cousin from another mister
LOOK WHAT THE STORM BLEW IN! No, quite literally, Irma brought my dear sweet cousin Elli to me, as she could not yet return home to Ft. Lauderdale. THANKS, IRMA! Elli and I haven’t gotten …
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The Bakery
I am INFINITELY GRATEFUL that The Cake is getting a handful of productions across the country this season. First up: at Playmakers Rep, the resident theater company at UNC Chapel Hill, where I wrote my …
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lie there and think about yourself
Maybe I’m doing it wrong, but I don’t like the part at the end of yoga where you’re supposed to ‘lie there and think about yourself, and only yourself.’ All I ever do is think …
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fragility
Do you ever feel like it’s sort of pointless to spend time building and cultivating and perfecting a physical home, because the Weather is a sometimes benevolent but oftentimes vengeful, irrational beast that we have …
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printercat
I got a lot of favorite things about Cracker, but one of the top 3 has to be this: HE CAN’T STOP TRYING TO COMFORTABLY SIT ON THE PRINTER. HE HAS TRIED SO MANY WAYS. …