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Back In the New York Groove

When Z and I made the decision to get married we also earnestly made plans for our future. We talked about what we wanted-kids someday, but not some day soon. To live in New York forever. I’d been...

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Post Paper Blues

Any of you guys do theater? Or used to do theater? You know the day after a show closes? The feeling of profound sadness and moodiness and emptiness and loss because it is over? I haven’t had that...

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Waiting For the Next Step

We know of a kid in a faraway town (no it isn’t your kid, I’m talking friend of a friend situation, someone who doesn’t know I blog) who has a certain developmental delay. Rather than simply focusing...

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Tender

C is napping. And I am sitting here with tears running down my face. I think I just nursed him for the last time. My relationship with nursing has been deeply personal. Because I fell in love with...

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Wednesday

Unplowed roads meant the boys didn’t go to school this morning. They both have colds. My throat started hurting by noon. Walked over a mile in a snowstorm to school. Classes were cancelled shortly...

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Boy In A Drawer

The boys ran up to T’s room and seemed to be occupying themselves without threat of imminent injury so Z and I took advantage, sipping our coffee and chatting in the family room. Z sat on the sofa, I...

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Flu

Tuesday morning I went to the doctor’s hoping I had caught strep from the boys. Why was I hoping for strep? It is treatable. I’d be back on my feet pretty quickly. Nope, not strep. Not an ear...

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I Checked My Privilege…It’s Pretty Staggering

You and I have a lot in common, Tal Fortgang. My parents also belonged to the first generation of college graduates in their families. My father worked hard and from humble beginnings went on to become...

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Last Days of School

A year ago I watched the mother of one of T’s classmates struggle with the reality that her child was leaving the comfort of our extraordinary preschool and moving on to kindergarten. The transition...

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Who Is the Real Butthead?

“I offered him a Hershey’s Kiss and he said he couldn’t have one because he lost his treat.” my friend J told me. “Man, I love that T is incapable of lying.” “I asked him why he lost his treat and he...

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