so where were we
HEY THERE HI THERE HO THERE WHOA THERE, what happened to the last… seven? Months? I wish I...
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Tag: beau
when we found out the light was still on
Tonight I left my house for the first time since yesterday. It was already dark but I was taking my kid out to ride her bike because I let her scream-whine me into the idea. Also, solo parenting. Imagine some wine glass...
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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...
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a decade of us
The day before I first met the beau I spent a couple of hours after work at a Wet Seal-like store,...
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up on task mountain
You hear a lot of platitudes about babies. But what you don’t often hear is that you (me)...
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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insight / hindsight
The thing about arriving at a new destination after sunset is that you’re left in the dark...
Read Moreget ur freakout on
It started with door trim or toilet paper. I don’t quite remember which. My first instinct is that it would have been the trim, because I recall feeling sour about how abjectly terrible it looked under the glare of...
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colorado nice
A few weeks ago our neighbor rapped on our screen door. “Can I mow the front part of your...
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dirty dancing
I don’t want to inspire jealousy in anyone or anything, but I finally found the trick to...
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