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02 December 2010 ~ 0 Comments

You don’t look pregnant …

Yesterday, I ran into a woman in yoga class that I haven’t seen in over a year. We started chatting right away, about my work and her grandkids, but my pregnancy just didn’t come up in the natural course of conversation. We were both sitting on our mats — I was cross-legged and kind of [...]

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29 November 2010 ~ 4 Comments

Maternity mindf*ck

What’s Ironic: This weekend, I bought a pair of GAP maternity jeans called “Long and Lean.” My entire life, I have been neither long nor lean, nor have I been able to fit my, uh, “athletic” frame into anything described as such. Apparently, though, now I am long and lean.
What’s Not F*cking Funny At All: These so-called [...]

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01 November 2010 ~ 4 Comments

Here’s a new one

Varsity Vocals applications were due today. I was out walking Molly around 9:30 am (she refuses to get out of bed before the crack of nine; it is her one redeeming quality), when I see what is obviously a college kid (I spotted his hooded sweatshirt with pushed-up sleeves from halfway down the block) standing [...]

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31 October 2010 ~ 2 Comments

A very scary Halloween

Beware, all ye souls who enter here!!!! … for a haunting and twisted Halloween tale awaits. (For those particularly faint of heart, it is advised that you skip directly to the photos at the end.)
November 1 is the deadline for college a cappella groups to apply to participate in several programs run by my small [...]

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29 September 2010 ~ 7 Comments

When babies fly

Turns out, Wyoming does agree with me. It was the best trip of our life. Better, even, than our honeymoon, we decided.
That may have had at least something to do with the fact that we know with certainty that our days of relaxing vacations and time for just the two of us are numbered. In [...]

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