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Thoughtful Thursday: Snap

A few days ago I was talking to a friend who is planning a wedding in NYC. He and his partner are working on choosing a venue. They just found one that meets their criteria. I asked him whether he felt...

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Thoughtful Thursday: Presents

Later I’ll get back to the snap decision I alluded to last week — waiting for it to be a sure thing. Burrito and Tamale are now 3 years old (!!!). A few days before their birthday, they saw the...

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Thanksgiving Parable

I am going to tell you a little Thanksgiving parable, and I would like each of you to come up with the moral of the story. We attended a big Thanksgiving celebration at the home of one of DH’s friends....

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Thoughtful Thursday: Scared

Welcome to the December Intelligentsia. #38: Elana from Elana’s Musings #31: Lost in Translation from We Say IVF, They Say FIV #30: Strongblonde from Strong Blonde #20: St. Elsewhere #18: Lori from...

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Thoughtful Thursday: Off the List

A month ago, the New York Times photography blog posted a series of photos of a place that I am pretty sure I will never visit: the fake old west towns in Spain’s Tabernas Desert. When I go back to...

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Thoughtful Thursday: Old

Normally I feel young-ish — my age, 30s — but lately there have been a few things that have made me feel downright old. Suddenly, I am getting called Ma’am all the time. Every store, every restaurant,...

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2013

“Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’…” ― Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Foresters

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Thoughtful Thursday: The Exhilarating Tension between Being and Becoming

Welcome to the January Intelligentsia. #39: Elana from Elana’s Musings #33: A from Are You Kidding Me? #32: Lost in Translation from We Say IVF, They Say FIV #31: Strongblonde from Strong Blonde #21:...

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Thoughtful Thursday: Really Really

First, an explanation of last week’s blog title: It comes from one of my all-time favorite SNL sketches. It aired my freshman year of high school. I didn’t even know anything about sports, but I...

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Thoughtful Thursday: Misanthrope

Welcome to the February Intelligentsia. #40: Elana from Elana’s Musings #34: A from Are You Kidding Me? #33: Lost in Translation from We Say IVF, They Say FIV #32: Strongblonde from Strong Blonde #22:...

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Thoughtful Thursday: Romantic

How was your Valentine’s Day? Mine was exactly like any other day. Well, that’s not quite true. I attended a preschool Valentine’s party and helped Burrito and Tamale celebrate, but it was like any...

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Thoughtful Thursday: Characteristics

You may have seen a news story this week about a lawsuit in Michigan in which a nurse is suing her hospital for allowing a NICU patient’s father to dictate that no Black nurses care for his baby....

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Thoughtful Thursday: Inhibition

Welcome to the MarchIntelligentsia. #41: Elana from Elana’s Musings #35: A from Are You Kidding Me? #34: Lost in Translation from We Say IVF, They Say FIV #33: Strongblonde from Strong Blonde #23: St....

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Time Warp Tuesday: Luck

For only the second time I’m participating in Time Warp Tuesday, run by Kathy at Four of a Kind. This week’s topic, in honor of St. Patrick’s Day: luck. For someone who doesn’t believe in luck, I’ve...

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Thoughtful Thursday: Energy

Welcome to the April Intelligentsia. #42: Elana from Elana’s Musings #36: A from Are You Kidding Me? #35: Lost in Translation from We Say IVF, They Say FIV #34: Strongblonde from Strong Blonde #24:...

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Thoughtful Thursday: Loud

Continuing where we left off with the questions I ask Burrito and Tamale to gauge other kids’ personalities… Another question that’s particularly relevant to 3-year-olds is whether the person is quiet...

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Thoughtful Thursday: Friendly

Back to the series of questions that I like to ask Burrito and Tamale about their preschool classmates… “Is she friendly or unfriendly?” Burrito and Tamale readily answer this question, but I don’t...

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Thoughtful Thursday: Happy

Closing out the series of questions that I ask Burrito and Tamale about their preschool classmates… So far, we’ve asked: “Is she energetic or calm?” “Is he loud or quiet?” “Is she friendly or...

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Catching Up, Part 1

Before we get to the present, a couple of events have happened in the 3.5 years since I disappeared that you should know about. Work went from bad to worse, to worse than that, to ok, to worse, to fine...

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Catching Up, Part 5

Another occurrence during my hiatus is that our family had an au pair, for half a year. It was supposed to be a full year but it, uh, did not go well. Nope. Major, unforeseen personality failings on...

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