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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Birthdays are for Mothers
Joe is going to be ONE YEAR OLD TOMORROW, and then two, and then three, and then seventeen, and then thirty-four, and then forty-seven, and Oh My God, Come back. I’m filled with reflection: what …
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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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The King
I very much treasure this tiny picture of Larry King and I that lives somewhere on the internet. I was early 20 something, post-playwriting Grad school in NYC, and a theater company I helped form, …
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new old things
The other day I said to Morrison, this year I want one hundred presents under the tree. I want the presents to cascade from the tree into other rooms like we’ve suffered a terrible leak …
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not lost on me
October is national pregnancy and infant loss awareness month, and it’s not lost on me that this time last year, we’d just had our second failed IVF transfer and I screamed in a parking lot …
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New Anniversary Tradition
Watching wedding video in Full, seeing all of the things we didn’t fully see because we were floating: Getting to relive all of the big and small moments, like the fact that while my Dad …
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a pity
If you were NOT the kind of child who was raised with the kind of delusional narcissism and wonder that compelled you to tie a note to a balloon and release it into the air, …
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I don’t know why or when
I found this picture amongst my things, and I’m not totally sure Why or When it was: But given my tanned legs / popped hip, I think I can surmise that it was taken at …
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Ornaments as Memory
A beautiful thing happened, in which Morrison and I can longer remember whose Christmas ornaments are whose. They all now live together in the same box and have fused histories, shared hooks and strings. With …