Waiting for studio notes on the first cut of my pilot, I spend the entire day baking. I make molasses cookies for my executives, a tray of blueberry pie bars for my editor, two loaves …
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good job
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the worst thing
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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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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Life insurance
The woman from the life insurance company very HAPPILY tells me that their insurance is the BEST life insurance because they have a special CLAUSE that allows my family to access the policy IMMEDIATELY if …
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fruit
As much as I’m turning into my Mother, I’m also turning into my Dad. I worry about how much strawberries cost, and stress when we don’t eat all of the strawberries we buy, I worry …
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she’s 41, and her Daddy still calls her sweetie
This lyric in Tanya Tucker’s Delta Dawn has always really resonated with me, she’s 41 and her Daddy still calls her baby, maybe because my own Dad (never Daddy, okay?) still calls me sweetie, still …
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this is covid
I don’t want to make light of this, because I know that nearly 7 million people have died of Covid, but last night, when I finally got my positive test, I finally felt like I …
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ISO
In Search Of: part time sitter to be with my daughter so that I can be with myself, get my work done, take care of myself, and my other kid, and be a wife, and …
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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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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 …