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Twenty years ago this month I graduated from high school, and twenty years ago next month...
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The last day of my first office job began with an invitation to a mysterious staff meeting...
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The Age of Mammals
One evening a few years ago Joe and I were walking the dog by the creek near our house when a thought out of nowhere appeared in my head...
Mar 26 • 
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Little Bum Bums
I knew the baby was going to arrive on the cusp...
Feb 26 • 
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The Babies In My Phone
The baby in my house goes to sleep or maybe she doesn’t...
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36: Ding Dong
This time last year was the saline ultrasound and the endometrial biopsy and the hysterosalpingogram, then the antibiotics, then the IVF orientation…
Dec 31, 2022 • 
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35: Pitter Patter
Hello from five weeks into having pushed a small human out of a too-small hole in my body. The present scene is quieter than that one: I am here on my…
Nov 27, 2022 • 
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34: Swinging Bridge
Oct 31, 2022 • 
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