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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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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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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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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