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advice

• advice, marriage, sex, works for me

  WFMW: One last question about sex

  04.01.08 | Permalink | 14 Comments

  Further proof that it is preferable to give than to receive, at least when it comes to advice: My ‘greatest hits’ WFMW post so far was my ‘backwards’ edition of Am I the Only One?.
  I asked if I were the only one to experience greater desire for sex than my husband and expressed frustration with [...]

• Sally, Susan, advice, motherhood

  As long as you don’t do crack when you’re pregnant

  03.28.08 | Permalink | 13 Comments

  Last night I was instant messaging Tara, whom I had not seen in eight months three days. When you’re IM’ing, you get a tiny adrenaline rush whenever you see the orange flashing thingie at the bottom of your screen indicating you’ve got a new message. (Dick says that’s the minimized window on the tool bar, [...]

• advice, breastfeeding, health, motherhood, vacations, well-meaning strangers

  Well-meaning strangers

  03.25.08 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  A funny thing happened on the way out of an Arizona Costco last week. The cashier (who was maybe early 20s) looked from my 2% milk to 18-month-old Spot on my hip and asked, Are you buying this for your daughter? When I said, Why yes, he persisted: You asked the doctor and he said [...]