In part one I learned that I had a baby who was breech. ACT TWO: THE WEEK OF MAGICAL THINKING I went into my 35-week appointment thinking something felt different. I thought that the baby had almost certainly changed positions....
Read MoreDid you know? Babies can be breech. I knew this, intellectually, and yet I still sort of believed it was something that happened only to other people. So you can already see where this is going. ACT ONE: A WORLD OF NOPE At week...
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On Saturday morning, 51 years after John F. Kennedy was assassinated and the day before my 34th...
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I want stuff. I want so much stuff it’s stressing me out. Let me rephrase that. I want stuff...
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The thing about arriving at a new destination after sunset is that you’re left in the dark...
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What’s a clever way to tell you I’m pregnant? Because I don’t have one. I have been trying to...
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I have been dicking around for what feels like forever with an almost empty shampoo bottle. Every...
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There was a point during my Papa’s funeral mass when I thought I was going to lose it. I was...
Read MoreOkay, that title’s a bit of a fudge, because in this case we had to do some prep work before the hour in question. I mean we could have lost $225 in much less than an hour by a merely sitting down at a roulette table, or...
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I’ve been dreaming a lot about shopping malls lately. Almost every night, for several nights...
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