My oldest friend in the world M had her second baby, a boy, this past December. And when he was born, I was so excited. It added to my excitement that he was born on Husband’s birthday. Also, it amazed…
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I just chopped by hair. More accurately, a genius named Aki just chopped my hair. And I was scared to do it because my hair had gotten so so long, but I went for it. Do it, I told him.…
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Some things are complicated. Some things are not.
Saturday, Husband and I took the girls to Turtle Pond in Central Park. Because of busy schedules and bad weather, we hadn’t been there in a while and as soon as we…
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Things were different when I was 25. I was in law school at Columbia. I was there not because I was particularly interested in the law per se, or practicing law one day, but because I loved school and felt…
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I am sitting here at Coffee Bean on the East Side listening to my Hummingbird playlist, smiling. I am smiling because I scored a big booth by the Third Avenue entrance. While writing these words, a breeze spills in and…
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{Her first time in undies.}
I remember potty-training Big Girl. It was a process. It was a pain. We began before she was 2, introducing plastic potty paraphernalia around our home, placing her tiny diaper-less bottom on it from time…
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I met Lauren Miller (then Lauren McBrayer) at Yale. Though she’s a bit younger, we were friends and had many friends in common and I always thought she was cool and smart. And she is. Fast-forward a few years. Lauren…
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About fourteen months ago, I wrote a post called Listen to Life. The post was a difficult one to write as it was about my Sister Ceara welcoming her little girl H who born with an ear condition called Bilaterial…
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I decided that there is a priceless Mother’s Day gift all of us moms can give to ourselves. Curious? Then click over and read my latest piece on the Huffington Post. And feel free to share it, like it, or…
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{My babes. Summer 2012.}
We humans are wired, it seems, to label. We like boxes. Species. Types. They make us feel safe, organized, in control. But the thing is, there are some things that defy categorization, diagramming. Big, important things…
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