If I could tell a new mom one thing, it would be to trust yourself. I carry guilt. For the ten times I am patient, I carry the one time I yell. For the ten times I play superheroes, I carry the one time I brush them off. I carry these for a moment. On [...]
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Mitt Romney won New Hampshire primary decisively, but I’ll let CNN and NPR go through the numbers. I want to talk about his victory speech or at least one part of it. Today we’re faced with the disappointing record of a failed president. -Mitt Romney And his supporters CHEERED. Who cheers for a failed presidency? [...]
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What does it mean to lose faith? I have always believed that doubt is a part of faith. Otherwise, it would be fact, and faith by its definition is a belief beyond facts or, to some, without facts. So doubts have rarely made me uncomfortable. I see them as how we maintain and grow stronger [...]
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My April Fools’ Day pranks have always been boring: Cellophane on the toilet Switch the salt and sugar Randomly lie and then laugh at the person for being so “gullible” I have no BIG pranks. At least not for April Fools’ Day. Now, randomly mooning people when they least expect it? I AM [...]
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I’m sitting in a waiting room. Or fighting with a dental hygienist. My son is having dental surgery. Twice this month. We went to the dentist because you are supposed to bring your kids to the dentist. I was just checking the we-are-doctors-who-follow-reasonable-recommendations box with my oldest. Our dentist saw spots, took x-rays and found [...]
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I had a theory going into parenting: If I was, or at least acted like, the best parent ever, I would have the best behaved children ever. I told myself: I must model the behavior I seek. If I don’t want my children to grab, I don’t grab out things of their hands unless there [...]
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I am totally paranoid in libraries. I always look for the table as far away from the librarians as possible. And with my back to the wall so they can’t SNEAK UP ON ME. I am naturally loud and talkative. Oh and I’m not great with rule-following. When I walk into a library, I feel [...]
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When my husband and I first met, we thought that we were SO MUCH alike. I can still remember sitting on my bed with him discussing how we wanted to die.
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