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Apr, 2015

A certain jet-lagged eleven year old texted me from school: “Can you pick me up from school. Got highlighter in my mouth and now my

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14
May, 2014

It was inevitable. Although I made it through seven years of the Pacific NW with my sense of humor (somewhat) in tact, it seems that

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11
Dec, 2013

Yesterday it snowed. Because all of Seattle would come to a polite, but screeching halt with an inch of snow (and because snow in LA

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6
Aug, 2013

Once a year I take a giant spill while on my morning run. It is always in the same spot. This is the spot as

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29
Jul, 2013

With about two weeks to go until we leave this house, there are many, many things I ought to be doing. I am neither a

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22
Jul, 2013

Now that the boys are home again, it’s clear there are certain things I forgot in their absence. Thing number one: NEVER employ the smell

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17
Jul, 2013

Bennett came home from camp one night this week — well, one morning actually. M met his delayed flight at two am. (Flying west during

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4
Jul, 2013

M says I am a self-hating American because I have generally insisted that the one rule we must follow on July 4th is to leave

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Jun, 2013

It’s perfectly stunning here. So much so, that we had no choice but to scoop up the girls this morning and head to the pool.

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Jun, 2013

I’m packing the boys up for summer camp, which means the room that used to be my office now looks something like this: .. and

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