It’s like a horror movie around here. Two days ago, I got a paper cut. Yesterday, I cut open my finger when I was opening the packaging on a new toy for Maddie – that terrible plastic stuff that you need a freaking hacksaw to break through. Today, I cut my thumb wide open opening…
For my fourteenth birthday, I received a gift certificate to go to Glamour Shots. When I was growing up, there was a Glamour Shots in every mall in the San Fernando Valley. I was STOKED to get that present. I’d wanted Glamour Shots taken since I was nine or ten. I’d wanted to get the…
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Blue and Gold
January 28th, 2009Comments: 27
The first thing strangers comment on are her eyes. They have flecks of gold like mine, but the blue is so much cleaner, truer – bluer. Her eyelashes are what they mention next. How long and thick they are. How people buy lashes like hers in stores. She’s not like other babies. She doesn’t look…
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When I was at my parents’ house last week, I saw the old growth chart my dad used to keep on the pantry door. It reminded me of when I was a little kid how obsessed I was with being “the biggest.” I remember being excited when my shoe size went up or when I…
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A Phone Call
January 26th, 2009Comments: 40
Madeline’s pediatrician called on Friday afternoon. I wasn’t bothered. Not at first. The mere fact she calls to check on Maddie is one of the many reason why I call her Dr. Looove. She said that was why she was calling. She asked about Maddie’s stats, and I ticked them off: slightly elevated respiratory rate,…
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