Awhile ago, I started up a Tumblr called “Attachment Parenting Ryan Gosling” for shits and giggles. It got a pretty good following, which means that two really annoying things started happening: 1) Everyone wanted to...
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6 Classic Children’s Stories that are Really Screwed Up if You Think about It
When I was a kid, my parents didn’t do fancy things like read me books. I never heard about most of the stories that people grew up with, like “Goodnight Moon” or “I Love You,...
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The World Forgetting, by the World Forgot.
Occasionally, when I am putting my daughter back to sleep at 2 a.m., I put aside my exhaustion and my frustration and my overall stress from the day and I just watch her sleep. There...
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You got the surface and substance confused.
Don’t believe what you read in those interviews. Jamais. Life is absolutely craptastic right now, and it never fails to seem more so after I’ve spent a few hours on Facebook. I had a miscarriage,...
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Y’all, I have this love-hate relationship with thrift shops. I used to go to them all the time when I was an angsty teen who liked to wear flannel and was really into Jordan Catalano. (And if you don’t know who Jordan Catalano is, then I’m sorry, but we can’t be friends. It’s not me,...
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I’ve never been one for resolutions. I’m an introspective person, and I’m always trying to figure out what’s “right” and what’s “best” and modifying my behavior accordingly. I mean, I’m not perfect: I’m not always successful. I don’t just fold my arms and blink my eyes and make it so. I am, after all, still...
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It was not a very merry Christmas. I’m sad to say it never really has been. In fact, Christmas has started to feel like a curse in my life. When I was a kid, Christmas always started out great. We always had a lot of presents, even though our family was very poor and we...
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Were you a jerk before you had children? I definitely was. I was definitely one of those people rolling my eyes at the exhausted woman in the restaurant struggling with her 4-year-old to keep him from throwing everything that was on the table onto the floor while her baby was by her side screaming —...
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The last year has had a lot of ups and downs. We went to Italy. I got fired from my job, which forced me to start working from home, fulfilling the goal I had for myself since before I even had Quinn, but which became even more important after she was born. We went to...
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Every time the lottery hits some huge mega-jackpot, my husband starts telling me that “we” really should buy tickets, and I point out to him that he is perfectly capable of doing just that. When we had the same conversation in the car today, he said: “I do buy lottery tickets! I’ve been buying lottery...
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