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Looking for the White Knight
So, my therapist has been talking about me to other clients. I’m totally cool with that–it’s in a good way. It’s like what Ellen Gilchrist said about her family’s reaction when she writes about them:...
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Be Nice to Your Wife
I’m not sure what I think about clairvoyance, but here’s a story that points towards yes. Our coffee date went so well that we decided to go out for dinner a few days later. The plan was that we would...
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The Engagement Fart
OK, OK. I’ve spent most of this week plugging away at the inspirational posts about authenticity and embracing YES and making yourself into the positive person you desire to become. Enough! Let’s...
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Love, Honor and Cherish
Traditional marriage vows include the promise to “love, honor and cherish.” With all my thinking about divorce this week, I’m seeing these three words in a new light. LOVE is an intense feeling of...
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My Stars
My girlfriends and I spent this rainy weekend in the mountains talking trash and drinking wine while someone else took care of our responsibilities. That is my little black and twisted heart’s...
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It’s All One Life
One sunny Sunday afternoon in November of 2004, Richard and I took a walk down to Fell’s Point in Baltimore. We sat on a bench by the harbor and watched the gulls dip and dive around the trash cans....
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CAUTION: These Pants Cause Cancer
These are the pants that I was wearing on June 30, 2004. That was such a busy day, a Tuesday, I think. Maybe a Wednesday. Richard and I had returned home from our vacation in New England, first at...
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The Sorrows of Your Changing Face
In 11th grade, our class studied British Literature, but we didn’t study it fast enough to suit me. We dawdled through Chaucer (even in translation!). We slogged through nasally BBC Radio records of...
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The Secret of the Five S’s
Here’s a GREAT piece of advice my mom shared with me when I was divorced from Fartbuster and starting to date again. It’s known as “The Five S’s.” That is blatant misuse of an apostrophe to try to...
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Good Night Moon
Tonight, Carlos chose “Goodnight Moon” for his bedtime book. We haven’t read it in a few months–I never got the sense he really liked it, but what do I know? He likes to say “mush” and “bears” and...
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Every Baby Changes the World
I’ve been thinking about babies for the last few days, specifically two growing boys named Carlos and Justice. December 26th is “Carlosmas” because my son was born on a snowy, quiet morning the day...
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Sunday Sweetness–An Open Window
Everyone in America seems to be talking about how cold it is (except you, Florida). So let’s spend a moment remembering what it’s like to sleep with the windows open so you can smell the honeysuckle...
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Green Bananas
In the strange ways of the world we’ve created online, I am sad tonight for a friend I’ve never met. We know the same people and we chat on Facebook. I’d recognize her if we passed each other in the...
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Wordless Wednesday–Wherever You Go, There You Are
No matter where you go or what you do in this life, there will always be one person that you keep running into: yourself. You’ll spend every second of your life with YOU, so why not invest all that...
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Let’s Talk About Love
Love is in the air… My column today at Work It, Mom! is a conversation I had with my kids to see what they think about love. What does it mean to love someone? How do you show someone you love them?...
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Cherish
Here’s one thing I love about having a space for writing: I am surrounded by my books, which are filled with ideas, and that comes in handy at times like RIGHT NOW when I really feel a desperate urge...
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A Snake, Two Black Eyes, a Fat Lip, and Honey All Over the Couch: Five Things...
Yeah, here’s why Pinterest can kiss my shiny white ass. While other moms are out there making craft fair table scapes and snow cream and sugar cookie silhouettes from their family tree, here are just...
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Married Bliss
It’s 12:28 a.m. and I may never sleep again. The scene of depravity that I just stumbled on in the den has burned itself into my brain and it will fester there until my last moment on this earth. I...
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Boys Who Love Boys
“I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me. If I had had words to speak such a thing, I would have. But there were none that seemed big enough for it, to hold that...
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Something Old, Something New
Today I spent eight hours on my feet volunteering at a consignment sale. The significance of the date didn’t hit me until 7:30 p.m., when I went to write a check for the two tubs of summer clothes and...
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