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Wild Boy

January 26, 2012

Henry has grown three inches since school began in August.
I swear I can hear it at night when he sleeps, a creaky groan over the baby monitor I can’t seem to part with. I like hearing him in the night, his little coos and sighs, his snores and babbling. Sometimes, he says my name.
Mama!
He’s such [...]

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Oh! Hey!

January 11, 2012

So 2011 can suckit.
And you know what? IT’S OVER. OVER OVER OVER. And I could not be happier. Granted, my buddy 2011 signed off by leaving me unemployed (and remind me to tell you about how I resigned and they FIRED ME ANYWAYS) but it’s alllll gooooood, as the kids say.
Is that what the kids [...]

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Gifts, Simple and Not

January 1, 2012

At 0800 hours this morning Operation Dismantle Christmas got under way.
Getting that dead tree out of my living room felt like taking a giant deep breath. We had a nice enough holiday, seeing everyone we wanted and needed to with a minimum of traveling but still, my heart wasn’t really in it this year.
The kids [...]

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Seven

December 14, 2011

In an hour, I need to make cupcakes.
The girl who was once my baby asked for them, homemade and chocolate, for her birthday celebration at school tomorrow. Because tomorrow, she is going to be seven.
Seven!
The night before she was born was frosty cold, my long maternity skirt catching flakes of snow in the parking lot [...]

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Anthem

December 9, 2011

“And liberty she pirouettes
When I think that I am free”

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Good

December 6, 2011

Today is my dad’s birthday.
Each year since he passed away the day has gotten easier. What I remember most about the first Dec. 6 without him is the hideous juxtaposition between that birthday and the one he celebrated just the year before. We threw him a surprise party in the midst of the urgent treatment [...]

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Powertrip

November 17, 2011

We had to meet in a coffee shop.
She has a new job, and I’m her only private client.
(Client? Patient? Friend?)
I have a cold. Actually, an infection. Bronchitis. It’s as if my body threw up its hands and said, “You won’t stop this crazy shit, so I am shutting you DOWN, lady.”
Shut down I am. But [...]

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You Might Gag While You’re Reading This

November 1, 2011

You know what’s totally embarassing?
Having a midlife crisis in public. I mean, how cliche can you get? I turned 40 and shit hit the proverbial fan. See? Another cliche. What the hell is the matter with me?
A lot of stuff has happened since my trip to the big city. The upshot is that my hand [...]

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Still Standing

October 27, 2011

I always thought I was the poor boy, but as it turns out, I’m the fighter.

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Fluency

October 20, 2011

Tonight, I’m in New York.
I grabbed a cab that dropped me off at a crowded bar for a happy hour I didn’t want to go to. I walked inside, scanned the room and realized I didn’t know a single soul there. I spent my day wearing my professional face, with the all-too-brief exception of a [...]

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