Take Off Your Judgey Pants And Stay A While

July 20, 2011

Yesterday I wrote about taking Annie to a movie for the first time. The whole experience was about doing something with Annabel that we’d done with her sister. We don’t ever want Annie to look back on my chronicle of our lives with her sister and say, “how come you didn’t do that with me?” [...]

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Dancing On The Debt Ceiling

July 14, 2011

Heather: Leah is coming over tonight, and she said she wants to talk to you about the debt ceiling. Mike: OK. Heather: So, that gives you three hours to learn what “debt ceiling” means. Mike: I know what the debt ceiling is. Heather: Oh. Well that’s good. I didn’t want to have to explain it [...]

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Brains Scrambled Over Easy

July 5, 2011

A few months ago I went on a trip and thanks to lack of routine and forgetfulness, I didn’t take my head meds for three straight days. My head meds are for my anxiety, so you’d think that forgetting to take then would just make me anxious, right? Wrong. I went into this weird state [...]

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Do These Stripes Make Me Look Pregnant? Wait, Don’t Answer That.

June 23, 2011

The week before I got sick I went to a house party. When I walked in and saw my friend Rebecca, we both burst out laughing. We were were dressed almost identically. We both had on black and white striped maxi dresses that were cut the same. She’d almost worn a jean jacket, and I’d [...]

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I Get It, Mosquitoes.

May 24, 2011

There have been a few times in my life when I really wanted to look my best. My wedding, my honeymoon, and this week when I am on TV in my bathing suit. And so far, two out of those three times, mosquitoes have done their best to sabotage me. On my honeymoon in Fiji [...]

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Adult Spelling Bee

May 17, 2011

Annabel is going through one of those developmental bursts that is awesome and frightening. She will bring a book over to me, sit in my lap, and say, “Book!” Her word comprehension expands every day. And, to go along with that, she repeats any word she understands…with sometimes mixed results. Doggie = any animal, regardless [...]

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