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Mr. Bennet works from home
08.05.09 | Permalink | 17 CommentsMr. Bennet hasn’t worked from home in many months. I know, theoretically, that his job is to create help for software and that mine is, primarily, to raise children. In the abstract this is fine — I don’t want to waste my life writing instructions for some application that three people in the world will [...]
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marriage
(a love letter to my husband. I know, tacky)
02.18.09 | Permalink | 21 CommentsDear Tom, I make it a point to be honest and candid here, to be real. And that has led to two major problems. 1) It perpetuates one of the myths of our marriage, that I am always the “bad guy” who yells and swears and overreacts and criticizes the way you “park” the car. [...]
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marriage, motherhood
“She sweeps with many-colored Brooms — And leaves the Shreds behind –”
02.12.09 | Permalink | 27 CommentsJust now I sat down at my laptop to check my email and blog feeds before mopping the kitchen. Today was so nondescript I couldn’t answer when Dick asked how it was. I am menstruating, to put it clinically, and the weather is gray. Spot has finally toned down the whiny squeak that had me [...]
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marriage, works for me
Enough Featherbrain to Stuff a King-Size Mattress
12.09.08 | Permalink | 13 CommentsI have lately come to the inevitable yet wrenching conclusion that Dick and I had no business marrying each other. We don’t fight (much) about sex, or money, or even politics, but we do struggle when it comes to the little things in life. Things like NOT LOCKING the car when it’s in the garage [...]
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marriage
But he seemed like such a nice, quiet guy
11.27.08 | Permalink | 6 CommentsWednesday night as we waited for Australia to start, my sisters and I discussed men. Mary’s marriage imploded earlier this year, and Karen is now much less starry-eyed at the prospect of love and romance than Mary and I were when we were nineteen. Karen asked us how she could ever know if it was [...]
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marriage
What I see when I see you
11.22.08 | Permalink | 15 CommentsI found my place at college when I applied for Writing Fellows. I’d settled on English as a major after trying out everything from pre-med to American Studies, and the idea of telling people what was wrong with their writing, for money, was too appealing to pass up. I adored the other Fellows: the smart, [...]
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marriage, motherhood, movie reviews
Quantum of Silliness
11.14.08 | Permalink | 9 CommentsDick and I couldn’t get a babysitter tonight to go to the movie we wanted to see. Apparently the teenage girls in Seagull Fountain go to dances and also book up their Friday nights before school is out for the week. (The nerve.) But we needed a break from the emotionally draining business of intense [...]
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