April 20, 2010
Martin and I just had a great conversation about money, career, long-term plans. The kind of conversation you want to have with your spouse. We chatted in peace about our jobs and the things we love to do and the way we see our life unfolding for about twenty minutes while our daughters played happily [...]
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September 12, 2009
Rio starts kindergarten on Monday. I’ve already told the story of our decision to send her to school here and on Babble. I’ve been alternately praised for listening to my daughter and castigated for my failures as a mom. Today I want to talk about what happened during that now-famous conversation when she asked me [...]

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