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Helpless Hoping
Hello, internets, from Amtrak train 171, currently somewhere is gloriously green Virginia. There were some cows just now, and a heron in that tiny pond by the tracks where I often see a heron. I am...
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Snow day updates
Hey, gang. Yes, I am still here. ETA Yes, I started this on the blizzard day and now things are melting and I still not editing it to any kind of a reasonable length. You have been warned. I wrote a...
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Thoughts from the road
Greetings from somewhere in Pennsylvania. I can’t be more specific, as the Bean has commandeered the the GPS device, it’s too mountainous for our phones to be speaking to us, and I have allowed...
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Geography Lessons
Or: Things I Learned By Getting A Car 1. Brooklyn is a beach town. Queens, too. Oh, and Staten Island. Brighton Beach/Coney Island and the Rockaways are accessible by public transit, yes, but by car...
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Gee, but it’s great to be back home
There’s no place like it, for real. Let’s never leave again, except to visit Starrhillgirl. Hi, internets. Thank you thank you thank you ten thousand times for your comments on that desperate post so...
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Back To School
Lord, y’all. Feels like I have to commit grand larceny of time even to get a quick post out these days. Hello from the Metro North Railroad, where I should really be grading. Item: The Bean’s school is...
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Quick Things
Two of them, because it is a weekend and because I am turning over another leaf and mean to — for real, this time! — start posting tiny things more regularly. 1. The Bean started preschool, two days a...
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Midsummer
This much-delayed post brought to you by my visiting in-laws, Sugar’s taking a day off work, and my realization that even more than a donut, I would like some peace and quiet, alone in the apartment...
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Red Beans And Ricely Yours
Happy Spring, Internets. It is about damn time. Lots has been happening here. And yet, when I think about what to write to you, it’s hard to know what is of consequence. The days are just packed, as...
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Tummy Time
One of those days when it feels like my chief accomplishment is, “almost dropped the baby BUT DIDN’T.” Not a bad day, you understand, but man, didn’t I used to do things? But, then again, just before...
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Fits and Starts (Take 2)
Did this pop up in your reader once already, when it was much, much shorter? Thank the awkward interface of the WP ipad app! Hey, look! I got as far as a title for that post I didn’t write on Tuesday!...
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Bionic Family Newsletter
Hey, y’all, she remarked sheepishly. I am sorry it has been so long. I thought I remembered about this phase, how it means just nursing 27 or 28 hours a day, but I crucially forgot that nursing a...
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39w4d: Fingers and Legs Firmly Crossed
Sugar says I should tell you I am still pregnant. I am still pregnant. I am hoping to remain so for at least a few more days, until local conditions improve. Monday, it snowed and snowed. Tuesday, my...
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Sunday Snapshots
Morning. No coffee, or rather, no milk, which means no coffee for me, given present esophageal conditions. Sugar and the Bean get dressed, count down the minutes until the local grocery store opens,...
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Items, Glorious Items
Were you in Oliver! ever? I was. Eight grade. I do not love that show. Sorry if this song is now in your head for the rest of the day, too. I don’t know what gets into me. We were instructed to wear...
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Matroyshka Monday
I know “Mother Charmed By Own Child” is hardly breaking news, but I can’t help that swollen feeling my heart gets when the Bean asks to play with my matroyshka dolls. I love how careful he (ahem,...
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A Tiny Cake For A Half-Birthday
When Sugar and I got married — the big party time, not the legal time — we tried to make a registry that wasn’t careless with money. We asked for things we were sure we would use, and we looked for...
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17.5 Weeks/2.5 Years
Hi, again — I say again because the blasted device ate the version of this I started in the afternoon. For the record. Thank you all for your kind, wise, compassionate comments on that bloody post of...
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video interlude
Hi everyone, Sugar here. Bionic told me yesterday that she very much appreciates everyone’s supportive comments on her last post and is still working on processing everything. In the meantime, I...
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Bloody Business
Before I begin, I want to just say, in a small voice, how crushed I feel by May’s latest news, by the utter un-rightness of it, by how badly the universe is flubbing its lines. This is not how the...
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