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Sew Fun
Project #1: Birthday Party Dress Tuesday night is the new Thursday night. Or rather, the new old Thursday night before I had kids. Far from the bedtime cries of more water and I have to go pee,...
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Grocery Baggage
It can be awkward running into your therapist in “real life.” However, I can’t decide if it is more, or less awkward than running into your OB-GYN. Between the two, I have bared body and soul and a...
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Gym Mommy
Maybe someday... The gray cinderblock building looks like a nuclear fallout shelter than a center for health and well-being. I’m not a gym snob, but the 1950’s façade of the Santa Barbara YMCA is...
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My Happy Place
Everyone needs a happy place. A place that melts away your hard spots and lets your spirit free. A place to fill your lungs with air and reunite your head and heart. A place quiet enough to hear the...
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What’s in a Name?
Introducing Mr. and Mrs. ? My Yale classmates wielded some pretty hefty family names—Goodyear (iconic American company), Heinz (multinational food conglomerate), and Taft (former leader of the free...
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The Happiest Hour
Summer days stretch long like pieces of warm taffy. Best when shared Even after dark, the last sinewy pieces of the day stubbornly refuse to separate. At least one child will emerge from their bedroom...
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What does your Netflix queue say about you?
Good for eating or hecklingNetflix thinks it knows me. I recently visited the full site on my laptop and saw the following “Taste Preferences” selected just for me: 1. Inspiring Fight-the-System...
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The Death of Supermom
Do you like Working Mommy? This has been the running joke between The Husband and me for the last two months. I ask the question at midnight, when I am still on the laptop and he wants to turn out the...
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