Off to Nantucket without Morrison and the kids and I can literally feel every mile that the car, plane and ferry will take me away from them. Joe drew me each vehicle this morning, the …
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the worst thing
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what to wear when the world is burning
8 PM Tuesday night, Santa Ana winds howling like ghost trains, Morrison giving us all headlamps, our neighbor texting FIRE!!!! As another put the one in his yard out with a garden hose, a firetruck …
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baketution
There’s a lot of things I don’t know and am not good at, like there are just too many to list (taxes, basic home maintenance, how to keep a plant alive) but let’s celebrate what …
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your hope
To anyone who’s feeling self conscious today about the hope you felt leading up to yesterday: Don’t. You’re not dumb, you’re brave. Hope is a choice, and it’s an act of courage. Believing that things …
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family calendar
I want to pass along to my children all of my good qualities, like maniacally finding something special about each and each month of life so that each day is thrilling even if for some …
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Scared to say sorry
Joe takes a toy from Bobbie, she starts to cry. I tell him to say sorry, and he deflates, hides behind a door. I ask him what’s wrong, he says he’s scared to say sorry, …
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Israel
You are one quarter Ashkenazi, and lately you’ve been thinking a lot about that, maybe because you named your daughter Roberta after your Grandma, who was the daughter of persecuted Jews who fled from Russia …
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My Vote
Kamala Harris won’t stop emailing me, the problems seeing bigger than any one candidate, everyone is slandering everyone, so after much research and deliberation, I’ve decided to to make this Apple Chess pie from Southern …
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I am a good person (?)
I felt like a very, VERY good person and planet steward when I ordered myself a bunch of reusable straws, but then I realized that I Amazon Primed them, which basically cancels out any goodness? …
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hand and foot and mouth and heart
Joe caught hand foot and mouth at day care, and his PERFECT PRECIOUS little hands and feet and face are covered in painful red blisters and bumps and I look at him trying to pull …