Category: Personal
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A few nights ago, I was checking in with a friend about his small business — which had to survive Hurricane Harvey not so long ago — and he used the phrase, “in times like these.” I laughed. As if we have ever lived through a time like this. A pandemic. A global pandemic. How…
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Andy and I recently saw the touring production of Les Miserables, which is one of his favorite musicals. A few years ago when he was traveling overseas a lot for business, he would often play the Hugh Jackman movie version — or even just that soundtrack — in the background while doing work on his…
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Hi. I’m still here. Well, not here here. There is no time for here. No time or space for much of anything besides the kids, really. But I’m finally getting some decent sleep again, so that’s nice. I keep thinking about how sleep deprivation/interruption is literally used as a torture technique, but mothers (esp of…
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This little dude arrived last week, more or less on time, which felt quite late to this summer-hating mama. We’re all doing well — better than I expected, to be honest — as we navigate through and to our new normal. These first couple months are my least favorite phase of motherhood. My body aches…
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From “Boyhood on a Shelf” by Barbara Mahany: That’s what reading together in childhood does: It forever binds us. My two boys, born eight years apart, played with their toys alone. Reading was where we nestled, where we sank in deep, side by side. Books are where our hearts did so very much of their…