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The Good Marriage

Photo by Philippe Cheng. On our wedding day – December 18, 2004.
These days, I find myself thinking about a lot of things. One of these things is marriage. I think this is because I am a married woman and…

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Posted in: DAILY GRIND, Health & Happiness, IVY LEAGUE INSECURITIES., LOVE

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We Are All Works-In-Progress

How close are you to finishing your book?
I’ve been getting this question a lot lately. And it makes sense. It makes sense because I’ve been working on this novel for years now and because I announced recently that I…

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Posted in: BOOKS., DAILY GRIND, Health & Happiness, IVY LEAGUE INSECURITIES., LIFE, LOVE, Parenthood, The Fam, The Home Front, WORK IN PROGRESS, WRITING LIFE

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Our Trip to Paris!

So. We are back from Paris. The weekend was quick, but absolutely incredible. And I have so much I want to say, and get down, but this will serve as a start. Believe it or not, this is a small…

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Posted in: DAILY GRIND, IVY LEAGUE INSECURITIES., LIFE, LOVE

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little girl

Happy 2nd Birthday, Little Girl!

little girl,
This is hard for me, this time passing thing. I’m just going to say that up front; that it is not easy. It is not easy, but it is also wonderful. That you are growing, getting big, that…

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Posted in: DAILY GRIND, IVY LEAGUE INSECURITIES., LIFE, LOVE, Parenthood, The Fam, The Home Front

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Scenes from Vermont

The pictures suggest an ethereal romp through snow-caked country, rookie skiiers who are sweet and eager, smooth drives along quiet, empty roads, sisterly love in the form of icicle-hunting and driveway dance parties, hand-holding family love. But the pictures do…

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Posted in: DAILY GRIND, IVY LEAGUE INSECURITIES., LOVE, The Fam

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babe

To My Valentine

babe,
You were the one to remember to get Valentine’s Day cards for our little girls. You told me in a text. And I smiled when I saw the words because you are that guy. That guy who remembers the…

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Posted in: DAILY GRIND, IVY LEAGUE INSECURITIES., LOVE, Parenthood

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A Love Letter to You

dear you,
So. It is Valentine’s Day. And I’ve never quite decided whether I’ma big Valentine’s Day person or not. The girls are excited though. The big girls have spent oodles of time over the past week making Valentines for…

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Posted in: DAILY GRIND, IVY LEAGUE INSECURITIES., LOVE

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Change It Up.

On Saturday nights, Husband and I go on dates. Typically, dinner or a movie or both. But this weekend we did something different. Something out of our proverbial comfort zone. We went to a concert. We saw The Lumineers play…

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wedding

Yay!

The plan was to forgo blogging this weekend, but I couldn’t resist… We just had the most amazing meeting with our fabulous wedding photographer Philippe Cheng. We are going to work with him on finally doing our wedding album, on…

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Posted in: DAILY GRIND, IVY LEAGUE INSECURITIES., LOVE, The Fam, The Home Front

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Tomorrow Is a New Day

Tuesday was a really hard day for me. I woke up anxious, out-of-step. Big Girl was a weepy mess on the way to school and wouldn’t tell me why and I tried to coax it out of her with the…

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Posted in: DAILY GRIND, IVY LEAGUE INSECURITIES., LIFE, LOVE, Online & Onscreen, The Fam, The Home Front

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