resolve
In lieu of New Year’s resolutions, upon returning from our holiday travels I decided to just make a giant to-do list instead. I made this list on Sunday, and by the time I went back to it the following day I was having...
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holiday traditions (guest post)
I originally wrote this as a guest post for Lizzie and Isiah’s wonderful blog titled Love...
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Today there was an office holiday luncheon downstairs in the break room. For thirty minutes, I stayed upstairs at my desk, ignoring it. I knew exactly what was going to be spread out on those folding tables without even looking,...
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On Monday night, I stopped into Nordstrom. I was out browsing for a black clutch to use at a foncy wedding1 I’m attending this weekend, and I figured it couldn’t hurt to check out Nordstrom’s wares. Turns out...
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Last night we went to a wedding, and the beau proceeded to get kinda… toasty. I brought him home and put him to bed, and while I was finishing up in the bathroom we had the following exchange: Me: “I feel guilty for...
Read Morefirst wave feminism, birth of
Shortly after they were married, my parents went over to my grandparents’ house one Friday night for dinner. My mom and her mother set plates of food down on the table for the men, then busied themselves straightening up...
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probably an omen
True story. This morning, at work, I decided my desk could use some reorganization. I picked up a stack of papers from one side of the cubicle and set them on the other side, then decided I didn’t want them there after all...
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