The Very Best Dog

May 23, 2018

At some point in my 20s, I became fixated on pugs. I was single, living in Manhattan, and working about a million hours a week. I had no business getting a dog. But on a spring day in 2003, I went to see a litter of pugs that had just been born. Of the eight dogs who […]

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Eleven

April 24, 2018

I’m here tonight to accept my award for Best Slacker in a Blogging Role. I’d like to start by thanking space and time for conspiring against me to write at even minimal intervals at this point. It really takes special forces to make me stop doing one of the few things I’m okay-ish at. I’d also like […]

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The Year of Yes, We Loved You So

November 16, 2017

Let me just dust off the tumbleweeds here for a minute and prepare my monitor for the shock of some actual words being typed on my blog. It has been a while. So, I’m up against my annual oh-hey-look-it’s-November-and-suddenly-I’m-way-behind-on-holiday-prep realization. My 412 mental browser windows opened simultaneously, like they can only for the person who […]

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She’s Eight

July 8, 2017

When my daughter presented me with a wish list for her birthday, my first reaction was to be taken aback. Way aback.   Some things jumped right out at me. A pool — with hot tub. What? A fairy godmother. Um. Not being GF (gluten free). Ouch, my heart. A cat. I don’t even understand this […]

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The Last Fourth Birthday

June 12, 2017

I have long held the belief that the concept of the terrible twos is a complete and total scam that serves to brace us for the insanity that follows: THREE. Three has been a tough year around here and, last night, we said farewell to it for the last time. Today, my youngest is four. […]

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But Did You Die?

June 11, 2017

Ah, parental advice. We’ve given it, we’ve received it, we’ve fucked it right up on both ends. Am I right? I have been distinctly far less prolific on my blog over the last few months than I had hoped to be. And so, when my friend and self-publishing queen Jen Mann sent out a call […]

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The Peony Days

May 30, 2017

I do not plant or garden anything. It’s not in my wheelhouse to grow and cultivate life from the ground to bloomed fruition. I’ll admit, in the last few years, right around this time, I sometimes feel regret for not having tried to harvest a modest vegetable garden where my daughter and I could go […]

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Ten

April 24, 2017

A decade ago, I was rooting against science. Not for any dire reasons. But when you are seven days overdue with your first child and your doctor estimates that said child weighs more than nine pounds, you kind of want her to be wrong. Because you’ve never given birth but you’ve heard and read allllll about it — and don’t physics just […]

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2016 Exit Strategy

December 31, 2016

“What does this song mean? My whole life, I don’t know what this song means. I mean, ‘Should old acquaintance be forgot?’ Does that mean that we should forget old acquaintances, or does it mean if we happened to forget them, we should remember them, which is not possible because we already forgot?” — When […]

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The Oddities of Gratitude

December 15, 2016

Health. Family. General well-being. Caffeine. Like most, I am thankful for many things, which seem to be amplified during the holiday season. One thing for which I didn’t expect to feel gratitude was the loss of my husband’s job. We sort of knew this was going to happen. His company was bought and, invariably in those […]

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