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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{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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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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Okay. So, Sister T came over for dinner last night. It was a casual affair. A little takeout. A little chit-chat. We sat around the dining table which was an accomplishment as we tend to be couch- and kitchen-island-surfers of…
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Big Girl is off from school today, so it will be a jam-packed day of little girl adventures, but I wanted to come here and take a few minutes and tell you about this day so far. Because it has…
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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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Last Saturday, my good friend E had her baby shower and I wanted more than anything to go, but couldn’t because Big Girl had a soccer game at the same exact time and I wanted to watch my girl play…
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Clearly, I am not very good at not blogging. Oh well. This will be quick. And I think it’s important. Like, really, important.
Yesterday, I published a blog post about drinking and not drinking and the whole thing made me…
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I am sitting at my desk. It is a beautiful white desk covered in things – books, papers, photographs, pens. My hummingbird paperweight. My good luck rocks. A glass of water. It is half full. Four years ago, I might…
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