From the category archives:
Something about having a baby has made me hyper-aware of the cliches I spit (see?) out on a frighteningly regular basis. When I use them, I know I’m being lazy with my word choice, and as an ardent defender of words, this rubs me the wrong way (see? and, a mixed metaphor to boot (see [...]
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I know I’m far from the first person to say this, but having a baby in your life hurtles you into a time warp. Different priorities arise and other things fall back to their less important, more appropriate ranks. Before I got pregnant, I never thought I could be a woman who stayed home with [...]
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I’m nearly at the 17 week mark of this pregnancy, and I’m leaving for BlogHer in New York on Thursday.
When I bought the pass to BlogHer much earlier this year, I did it with the intent of alleviating what I thought would be a stressful August. August is a bit of a loaded month for [...]
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Right now this keyboard is about 20 feet from my husband’s sleeping parents. 27 days ago we had 2,000 miles separating us. That’s a radical shift, no?
After the August miscarriage I felt a bit crushed by how little support we got from family even though we lived not too far from them. I do [...]
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I keep intending to blog, but really, my life is in a kind of stasis right now, so there’s not much to update. I could blog about my feelings, but luckily those are in a stasis too–no major swings. I could blog about sore boobs, but no one cares. Well, maybe someone does, but I [...]
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Today is Mother’s Day, and I feel like I should have something to say about it. Growing up, it always meant scrambling the day before to find or make a card for my mom. The day of my brother, sister, and I would go to church then go have lunch with my mom’s mom while [...]
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My father stayed home with me that day–I was sick and in the third grade. He turned the television to this, and we curled up together, somberly, on our blue and white couch. I was young, but President Clinton’s words tapped deep into me–I think I knew then that I would always be driven to [...]
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