schrödinger’s 2020
A few Saturdays ago I was at Trader Joe’s, doing our huge monthly grocery restock. I plucked a tub...
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Category: true story
some things
1. A thing about time I understand that for some people a second (or fourth, or ninth, or what...
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size medium to go
So this post was largely written in April of last year. I got almost all the way done with it and...
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s/e/x mail
A few Wednesdays ago I received an envelope from my doctor’s office in the mail. Ah, these...
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when good got gone
On Christmas Day my back went out, or rather it started kind of seizing up, starting at the top of...
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a breech in several acts: act three
In part two I continued to have a baby that was breech. ACT THREE: I JUST DROPPED IN TO SEE WHAT...
Read Morea breech in several acts: act two
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 Morea breech in several acts: act one
Did 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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memoriam III
On Saturday morning, 51 years after John F. Kennedy was assassinated and the day before my 34th...
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insight / hindsight
The thing about arriving at a new destination after sunset is that you’re left in the dark...
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memoriam II
There was a point during my Papa’s funeral mass when I thought I was going to lose it. I was...
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