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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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The Obligatory “They Took Down My Ads” Post

June 3, 2010

So.
I went home for a spell, back to the land of Wegmans and the Great Lakes. I even took the children by myself on an airplane, which is akin to committing ritualistic suicide using a hot poker and rubbing alcohol.
But we made it, there and back. The kids were rock stars and ate up all [...]

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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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NaBloWriMoGoEffYourself

November 4, 2009

There once was a time when blogging every day during the month of November filled me the kind of glee and anticipation that children begin to feel on Thanksgiving, when Santa floats down a wide Manhattan boulevard signaling the Christmas season.
Today, the idea of blogging every day during the month of November makes me feel [...]

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