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little campsite in the big woods
I went camping recently, and I gotta tell you. There is nothing like nature to remind you how remarkable indoor plumbing is. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You think I’m gonna trot out the same stale jokes we’ve...
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the big chill
LET THE RECORD SHOW that by the end of my first October in Colorado I was ready for summer again. I don’t know what happened. One minute I was comfortable out-of-doors, and the next I was wincing and...
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value proposition
Back at the beginning of March, six of the beau’s college friends flew out from California for a surprise visit (they rented their own house and I was in on it in advance, so thumbs up emoji there)...
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another damn guide to babies
On the surface babies appear to be simple creatures of comfort, but they are in fact complex matrices of problems which you forever remain utterly at a loss to solve. Whether you’ve read every baby...
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well read
I don’t read. Well, I can. I do. I read articles on the internet, and blogs. I read the backs of food packets, and recipes. I read road signs. I read my mail. I don’t read books. How can this be? I...
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dirty dancing
I don’t want to inspire jealousy in anyone or anything, but I finally found the trick to keeping the house clean. Hiring someone to clean it. Surprise joke! You never saw that one coming, did you? Holy...
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progress report: a year in the life
I don’t know if it’s me or my culture’s surplus of anxious parenting essays talking, but I basically feel like I’m on the verge of fucking up my kid all the time. Knowing this line of thought is...
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Tonight I left my house for the first time since yesterday. It was already dark but I was taking my kid out to ride her bike because I let her scream-whine me into the idea. Also, solo parenting....
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nothing is linear
one It’s hard to live a normal life when you’re trying to save your country from wholesale descent into fascism even as normal life keeps happening. Work tasks continue to be assigned to me, dishes...
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schrödinger’s 2020
A few Saturdays ago I was at Trader Joe’s, doing our huge monthly grocery restock. I plucked a tub of hummus off the cold shelves and turned it in my hand until I spotted the use-by date. October 8,...
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