On Sunday I sat on the floor in the living room, kids napping behind closed doors, my husband watching football, and went through piles of outgrown baby clothes. Like an intake nurse in the emergency room, I busied myself with triage: the impossibly small polka dot sleeper my eldest wore home from the hospital saved [...]
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This Thanksgiving, I am counting my blessings. I am thankful for my husband, for my kids, for my parents. I am thankful for my friends. I am thankful for my health. I am thankful to my body for growing a perfect baby girl this year. I am thankful for the chance to pursue my dream [...]
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My sister-in-law visited this past weekend and, in the midst of chatting about important things like the kids, plot developments on Grey’s Anatomy, and her new puppy (I’m not a dog person, but this little guy? Cute. Very cute), we got to talking as we often do about our short-term, long-term plans – where we see ourselves in [...]
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Last week I was talking on the phone with a friend who recently moved away from our small Midwestern town. We were catching up on the start of the school year and her family’s adjustment to life in a new place, sharing stories about the different customs that seem to be attached to different communities. [...]
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You are a young woman. You are a middle-aged man. You are childless. You are a mother of five. You live in Cambodia. You live in Chicago. You are a marketing professional. You stay at home with your kids. You want to be a writer when you grow up. I met one of you in [...]
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