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Sloths

November 22, 2011

Rio’s interest in reproduction continues unabated. Now her questions have moved on to the animal kingdom. She recently learned about sloths somewhere (maybe at school?), and tried out with her dad and her sister making their slow way across a room at the pace a sloth would move at. A few days later, at bedtime, [...]

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The Spooky Things

November 21, 2011

Since she started school, Serena has developed this fear of being alone. She wants someone with her at all times: while she’s eating her snack, going up and down stairs, and especially when she goes to the bathroom. She says she’s afraid of “spooky things”. The other morning, I was standing in the bathroom watching [...]

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Sex Ed, One Awkward Conversation At A Time

October 11, 2011

So a few weeks ago, I made a terrible error. I was driving my girlfriend and her daughter home. I’d read something funny on the Internet earlier that day that I wanted to tell her about, so I did. Animatedly. Loudly. It was this thing about how Moby wants to make porn about men with [...]

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Hello, Again

October 5, 2011

So I hear rumors it’s October, and I haven’t posted to this blog since before I took off on my summer travels. Sorry, dear readers. It’s tempting to be glib about my absence, but the truth is I’ve been sitting under a giant boulder of writer’s block for months. It sucks, and I’ve tried everything [...]

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The Mystery House

August 6, 2011

Rio and Serena spent the entire day making a puppet show. They diligently created sets, dolls, wardrobes, the whole nine yards. They made them with markers, paper and tape. I’ve never seen them work so long on one coherent creative project before. I think we’re entering a new era of play, and I like it. [...]

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Humor Break: Do You Know How To Read?

August 5, 2011

Serena is watching cartoons on my phone. I know, I’m a terrible parent and she’s losing IQ points as I type this. Deal. So she knows that if I get a text message she has to pause her movie and hand the phone over to me. But she also knows that I get a lot [...]

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Rough Boys On The Playground

August 3, 2011

I started working on this post a year ago no, that was two years ago, my god, and never managed to finish writing it. I like to pretend that’s because I got busy with other writing projects. The truth is it freaks me the fuck out. So, at Rio’s school, there’s a play area outside [...]

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Privilege Is Awesome! Keep Talking About It!

August 3, 2011

Apparently I don’t want to blog about my kids anymore. This blog has been dark for a month while birthdays and family stories and cute memories have slid past in the sticky, messy, wonderful flow of July. And I have a few posts waiting to go. But they’re not about how Serena turned 4 (she [...]

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Mint: Voracious Weed Or Tasty Treat? Both!

June 14, 2011

I began gardening a couple of years ago with a lot of enthusiasm. Turns out, I’m not very good at it. I don’t have a big appetite for the physical labor involved, I get distracted during the planning phase, I’m always doing things at the wrong time. Essentially, I don’t put in enough time, money [...]

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Solo Parents, I Salute You

June 10, 2011

My husband came home yesterday. He got in at 1 a.m., slept for six hours and then promptly took the kids to school on time, made me coffee, went to work, came home, cooked dinner and cleaned the kitchen while reading aloud erotic passages from 19th century novels. What I’m saying is, he can stay. [...]

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