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Intended: June 2012
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Thursday, June 14, 2012. A More Explicit Step Two. 26 weeks 5 days. When I was younger, I adored print cartoons like “The Far Side.” They appealed to my quirky, often punny, weirdo sense of humor that was somewhere between intelligent and ridiculous. I felt very sophisticated reading them and understanding the joke (even though, yes, most of them featured talking barn animals. I get it.). This has been my week regarding life prep for my girl, the River Dancer. We’ll call motherhood the right hand s...
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Intended: January 2013
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Sunday, January 27, 2013. I have spent my entire life striving for the next thing. Anyone who knows me will tell you I’m a hard worker. I’m rarely satisfied with the status quo. And I’m a *wee* bit of a control freak/ perfectionist/ organizational monster (please see previous posts about college nickname “The Binder Bitch.”) I have a really hard time slowing down. They strive to move on to the next measurable milestone. Hell, I’ve even made that the primary pursuit in my vocation—helping ...Because if yo...
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Intended: April 2012
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Sunday, April 22, 2012. 19 weeks 2 days. It cracks me up that once you publicly announce the fact that you are expecting, your life surrounding said pregnancy suddenly becomes the most wanted and interesting information ever in the history of mankind…to EVERYONE. “Tell me everything! 8221; squeal complete strangers. Um. Everything? Who are you again? How long were you guys trying before you got pregnant? What part of that question seems like an ok thing to ask a stranger? Next week—no period, negat...
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Intended: March 2012
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Saturday, March 24, 2012. 14 weeks 6 days. This week I think I felt what the experts call “quickening.” I know that it’s earlier than most people say that quickening is detectable. But I swear, it’s true. I was just lying in bed, wondering why I was nervous—what the butterflies in my stomach were all about…why the flutters? Then I wondered what I had eaten that would make me feel gassy…maybe it was just gas? It was definitely something I had never felt before. But then I look down and remember that IR...
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Intended: March 2011
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Sunday, March 13, 2011. I’m sitting in Pudong International Airport. I have been in China now for nine days and am finally headed back to the States. My time in China has proven to be quite interesting—a true, once in a lifetime experience. 8221; to myself…and most everyone around me. There might have been tears. So leaving the country on the day your fiancé comes back from war and making it through the additional salt-in-wound time apart…not for the faint of heart. But such fun local things I did! I hav...
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Intended: I got nothin'
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Tuesday, October 14, 2014. My mother always said if you didn’t have anything nice to say, not to say anything at all. It was her way of saying “don’t be mean” and “keep your complaints in your pocket there, bucko.”. And it’s not that I’m keeping my complaints to myself. Again, I’m certain that I could give you a laundry list of drama if you gave me a minute. But there’s no use in that either, and in the grand scheme of it all seeming very first world problem-y, well, it is. Last time J was over, I would ...
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Intended: Unintended parenting
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Sunday, November 9, 2014. I’m not sure if it has exploded recently or if I’m only just now paying attention to it because of Ell, but there seems to be no shortage of articles/ blogs/ posts/ books about how hilariously hard it is to have a toddler. (Scary Mommy anyone? I’m constantly reading about the 40 simple steps to get a toddler into a car (ok, that one was actually really funny…) or how kids take up all your time and your space and your waking hours (and your will to live.). You’ve probably r...
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Intended: October 2014
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Tuesday, October 14, 2014. My mother always said if you didn’t have anything nice to say, not to say anything at all. It was her way of saying “don’t be mean” and “keep your complaints in your pocket there, bucko.”. And it’s not that I’m keeping my complaints to myself. Again, I’m certain that I could give you a laundry list of drama if you gave me a minute. But there’s no use in that either, and in the grand scheme of it all seeming very first world problem-y, well, it is. Last time J was over, I would ...
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Intended: Come my friends...
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Sunday, November 23, 2014. When I was in the 7. Grade, my parents took me to see the movie “Dead Poets Society.” I don’t feel like it’s an overstatement to say that it changed my life. It was the day I knew I wanted to become a teacher. It was what started a lifetime of interest in studying residential schools. And most importantly, it was the moment that I realized I loved language:. Assuming that other normal, non-nerdy people don’t have a working knowledge of this poem, let me tell you a little ...
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Intended: February 2011
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Monday, February 28, 2011. Irony: a (1) : incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result (2) : an event or result marked by such incongruity b : incongruity between a situation developed in a drama and the accompanying words or actions that is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play —called also dramatic irony, tragic irony. Clearly, this is a rhetorical question.). Very calmly and rationally, but with a great deal of seriousness, ...
