Here lies Woman. She died trying to engage her pelvic floor while emptying the dishwasher, trying to squeeze her abs and glutes while picking a piece of scrambled egg off the floor, she died. She …
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what is pelvic floor
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sometimes me
A friend sent Joe and Bob this book and I’m ashamed to admit that I didn’t think Joe would be into it, given that there’s no cars inside, but look, don’t but your kids in …
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when
Do you have any questions for the doctor? YES, WHEN. When will my uterus return to its normal size? When should I start dinner? When can I workout again, when can I work again? When …
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if you give a kid a sister
One of the reasons we wanted to have a second kid was that so Joe would cultivate independence, know that the world does not revolve around him, not that it’s impossible to teach this to …
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his waffle
Today on why we had a second kid: Every morning when he wakes up, Joe gets a waffle. Simple, right? No. Hell no. Maybe it used to be? There was a time, oh, there was …
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her finger
Scene: Bobbie is 23 years old. We haven’t spoken in months, maybe years, after a mostly tumultuous relationship that only got worse once the girl hit puberty, and it was all downhill from there, and …
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half thoughts
Goddess / favorite playwright and mother of three Sarah Ruhl has a book called 100 essays I don’t have time to Write and it’s brilliant and it pops into my head multiple times a week. …
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Blankets
This here’s Bobbie nestled in a blanket that her great great grandmother Leah knit for me when I was a baby. Leah is my middle name, and Leah’s daughter was Roberta, who Bobbie is named …
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priorities
There’s nothing like being up with a newborn in the middle of the night, her staring up at you with your own Eyes, to make work feel so far way. Every deadline and contract and …
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mama’s water
Joe has never been a Mama’s boy, he belongs to each of us equally, if anything it’s Morrison that’s usually making him laugh while I’m frantically getting his lunch ready, googling his snot, finding him …