The other night at dinner, sucking on an apple slice, Bobbie casually tapped into my biggest insecurities, laid bare my primal squishy center self, who is approx 10-13 years old and chubby and trying to …
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you’re not good at basketball
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you can’t control it
Remember when, for ten years, I wrote on this blog everyday like it was my job, because sometimes it was? And then remember when I had children and decided to back off this commitment and …
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between friends
Actual found dialogue between two girl women friends who have gone wine tasting to celebrate 21 years of friendship. Where’d you get those pants? Where’d you get those bracelets? What was that story you told …
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it’s a circle
Once a year, every year, I hurt my back. I take my off the ball and my physical therapy, I hunch over my computer and I slump in chairs and on planes and I cross …
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Birthdayxiety
Noun: the feeling when you’re at work and it’s your birthday and you’re at once VERY ANXIOUS about how and when there will be a big group moment with cake and singing and also VERY …
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again I dream of bacon
If I wrote my dreams into an episode I would get a note that they’re too on the nose, they live on my nose as I sleep. I dream, again, of bacon, always bacon. I’m …
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worst case scenario
Making our will, we’re forced to think about the worst case scenario, what if we both died, where should the kids go, who should take care of them? We decide what makes the most sense …
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you’re doing a good job at home
My hair stylist asks me if I’ve noticed a texture change in my hair, since I’ve gotten older, have I noticed the fact that I’ve grown a full bowl cut of post partum hair under …
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white jesus
Walking home from the park, Joe spots a nativity scene. Joe: OOOOH, LOOK MOM! A NATIVITY SCENE! But I don’t see Jesus! Me: He’s right there, honey. He’s the baby in the manger. Joe: That’s …
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the sweater
I’m on the precipice of perhaps the biggest thing that’s happened in my career (which I must be vague about as it’s not official) and in response, instead of prepping emotionally and logistically for my …