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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Mo and Joe
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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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A Schedule
Joe has many favorite classic baby games these days, including Peekaboo, Roll the Ball, Yank out all hairs dangling from Mom’s head or Dad’s face, and then of course THE MOMENT THAT MOM GRASPS A …
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Alexa, set a timer for Forever
Let me know when Forever minutes have passed and then I’ll go and do the next Thing I have to do, because right now I want to just be here. So maybe, stop time? That’s …
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Pandemic Premiere
Since it became abundantly clear that the Pandemic was not going anywhere anytime soon, Hollyweird decided they would send the concept of the Movie Premiere to the viewer’s home, by providing secret viewing links and …
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The Last Supper
I’ve been workshopping what I might make for a dinner party to celebrate Donald Trump’s last day in office. Or maybe, what I might make him for Dinner. Obviously the guiding color is orange. And …
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I love you
Sharing this very absurd very narcissistic feeling here in this very safe very public space: sometimes I catch myself worrying that my son doesn’t love me. Or I think, what do I need to do …
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I resolve
Morrison took these pictures of me after our New Year’s eve dinner the other night. YES, we got dressed up to go downstairs and play board games over Zoom because Joe had just pooped on …
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The Cookies of my Labor
I ask myself these questions: should all of the time I spent the last six weeks baking this myriad of Christmas Cookies for neighbors and friends and husband and self and taking pictures of these …
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The Mother’s Prayer
….that you grow big and strong but small, smaller even, so you can stay in my arms forever that you grow autonomous and also need me always that you go places but never leave that …