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Peter

June 12, 2010

He was the second youngest of five children, or at least he was, when I started babysitting for his family.
He was a skinny kid, with brown hair. He was only 4 years old and he sometimes got lost in the shuffle of the busy household. His older siblings — the eldest was 11, the others [...]

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Not Fancy

June 6, 2010

The yard could only be described as pastoral.
Children of all ages ran around the verdant grassy stretch behind the white house, its full back porch decorated with bronze butterflies and a string of lights. Cozy rattan couches invited guests to sit and relax, and the two — two! — wooden play structures snuggled into a [...]

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Tripped Up

April 29, 2010

In a stunningly apt metaphor, I tripped going down the stairs going from the public library to the parking lot Wednesday.
I was juggling my messenger bag stuffed with papers and my laptop, my phone and my jacket. It was nippy that morning but by afternoon the sun was shining hard and hot. A kindly woman [...]

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Bed (Un)rest

Thumbnail image for Bed (Un)rest March 26, 2010

I say I’ll go to bed early, sleep off the day without guilt.
But I don’t. I read or putter or snack on junk food while glued to the TV. I finally drag myself upstairs, check on the children.
Maybe she’ll want to snuggle later. I push my daughter’s hair from her face. She looks, when she [...]

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Crooked Road

February 7, 2010

I’m sitting at the Opryland Hotel and Resort in Nashville.
It’s Sunday, and everything is closed. All the bloggers have gone home. My new friend is in an airport in Ohio. The lovely ladies who ferried me here by car should be more than halfway back to Chambana now.
I am sitting at a metal table, one [...]

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Imposter

February 3, 2010

In about 11 hours I’ll be on the road to Nashville.
I’d planned to come back home to Chambana the same way I left: In the car, with two of my pals. Instead, sometime on Sunday I’ll board a plane for Los Angeles.
A little ditty I wrote up over here in about 30 minutes last week [...]

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OMG! Like, Squeee!

January 29, 2010

I’ve been at this whole blogging thing for a long time now.
I hit “publish” for the first time in 2006, back when the blogosphere was still pretty small — at least as far as moms go. It felt like a little neighborhood designed just for me: interesting, funny women who were dealing with some of [...]

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She Wants To Be A Writer

January 17, 2010

She let me dry her hair tonight.
Usually, we let it air-dry after her bath. By the time she gets out and gets dressed, we’re tired. Ready for the day to melt into evening. But in the mornings we all pay the price when she screams as the brush makes its halting way through her tresses.
Today [...]

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Month 17

January 7, 2010

He is so perfect right now, sweet and ripe like a berry on the vine. I want to pluck him and stash him in my freezer, to preserve his freshness just as he is today. My Babyman, at month 17.

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The Year Of Living Dangerously

January 1, 2010

I never keep my resolutions.
Last year I vowed to be more organized and to shower every day. My life is more chaotic than ever and if you want to know about my personal hygiene, just take a whiff of my armpits.
So am I making any resolutions in 2010? No, no I am not.
In 2010, I [...]

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