Don’t mind us jerks! We’re down at a SoCal Hotel where we sojourned last February, when I was 12 weeks pregnant and Joe was the size of a Lime and Covid was still buried in …
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Joe meets World
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HAVE BABY, WILL TRAVEL
Having a pandemic quarantine baby means you really, REALLY don’t go anywhere. I literally can’t even fathom taking him to a Store. It took us weeks to even take the dude for a walk. So …
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These Biscuits
FLEW 2,367 MILES CROSS COUNTRY TO SEE THIS BISCUIT WAS ALSO EQUALLY INTERESTED IN EATING THE OTHER BISCUIT, PICTURED IN FRONT OF HER 💛
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Quiet Area
To the woman sitting at the table next to me SHOUTING AT AN AIRLINE ON HER PHONE, please note the carefully placed decorative wood blocks that remind us (you) that one comes to Ojai for …
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THIS LAND WAS THEIRRRR LAND
THIS LAND WAS NOT OURRRR LAND Bless you Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City For this striking image. Traveling all over Oklahoma for the next week, researching the Oklahoma! Musical TV show (WHAT …
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HAPPY 4TH FROM OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON
LAND OF TRUTH; OPTIMISM; BATHROOM WALL SCRAWLS LIKE ‘ABORT THE PATRIARCHY;’ RECYCLED PAPER COMMUNITY JOURNALS BEARING MESSAGES OF HOPE ALSO VEGAN SAUSAGE; TREES. No but really it’s hard to feel fully patriotic these days but …
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Our baby lives in the Future
Years ago I was hired to write a feature adaptation of The Secret, which means I’ve gotten to know and work with Rhonda Byrne, the kind and remarkable woman who wrote the book and lives …
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I SEE YOU FAYETTEVILLE
In Fayetteville, NC to see MY NEW FAVORITE PRODUCTION OF CAKE (NOTE THAT THEY ARE BASICALLY ALL MY FAVORITE.) It’s a largely military fam community, which has seen some serious revitalization and surge of local …
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Ocean as mystery
Me to Myself: let’s not be the people who take pictures of the Ocean and drinks by the ocean. Instead, let’s be people who quietly appreciate its beauty, it’s mystery, without a need to document …
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Azulik, or Choices
Azulik is the most famous bar in Tulum, maybe because you can sit in a nest in the jungle sky and watch the sun go down over the ocean, OR MAYBE BECAUSE EACH COCKTAIL COMES …