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From the monthly archives:

April 2006

Further adventures in learning to talk

April 27, 2006

1. Rio and Mama in the bathtub, Rio lying on my chest with her head snuggled under my chin. She suddenly looks up, puts both hands very tenderly on either side of my face and kisses me o-so-gently on the mouth, and says, “I miss you, Mama.” Well of course I told her I miss [...]

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echolalia

April 24, 2006

Driving home from dinner with M, chatting about his rebuttal of a friend’s crazy rant about global warming: M: I really respect his position about wanting a balanced debate. He was just unclear about the science. Me: You were so restrained. You could have been like, “Here is my massive intellectual cock, adorned with a [...]

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how did she do that?

April 6, 2006

i set rio up with a plate of soy nuggets while I cooked our real dinner. she’s been quietly sitting at the kitchen island eating for about 20 minutes, and she just equally calmly handed me half her dinner plate and said, “Surprise! Broken! bye-bye plate!”

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