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Kids are bad at all the stuff they do
Here’s why I’m a worse mom than you: instead of feeling proud and happy that my son qualified for the A-level swim championships, I’m annoyed that I now have to spend two weekends going to two...
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Embracing Forty
Today I am forty. Time has certainly stamped its passage on my person. My body carries the years in various and sometimes surprising ways. And yet, as I face this milestone birthday I don’t feel the...
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Letter to my son on his 9th birthday
Each year I write a letter to my kids on their birthdays. To see more birthday letters, click here. Dear Luke, Happy birthday! Today you are nine and that’s a pretty big deal! These letters get harder...
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Erma Bombeck and the Flu
I know there’s a joke in here somewhere. … I opened the window and in-flu-Erma!* “Huh?” – you. Let me explain: I recently returned from the Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop at the University of Dayton....
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