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  “You look good wearing my future”

  03.18.11 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  I still remember the metaphor Donna Martin used in the TV show Beverly Hill, 90210 to convince the parents that sex education is a good thing. She says: what if there’s this swimming pool and you do everything you can to keep the kids out of it, you build a big fence and you keep [...]

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  Tender Mercies: Birthday party edition

  10.11.09 | Permalink | 10 Comments

  Susan turned five on Saturday, but her party was the minimal style I’ve perfected over the years. Step 1: invite grandparents and cousins that morning. Step 2: shop for decorations at the Dollar Tree, ingredients at the Walmart, and then cook the birthday girl’s easy favorites. Step 3: Let Dick watch/listen to football in exchange [...]

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  Planning

  10.05.09 | Permalink | 9 Comments

  My mother says that every time you have a miscarriage you rethink things. She should know; she had three. I’ve only had two, and my second is just about over. In eleven years, five pregnancies and three children, I always thought that I had my fertility pretty well in hand. I got pregnant within a [...]

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  sometimes you find / You get what you need

  07.22.09 | Permalink | 9 Comments

  So, I was watching Sex and the City on TBS (I know, but really I just watch because it reminds me of being single and fabulous in New York City, if by single and fabulous you mean married at twenty and secretary of the Economics Department). And the thing about that show is that none of the [...]