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It’s Halloween weekend.
So the holiday season begins on Monday, right?
Let’s pull out our festive throw pillows. Bake cookies. Start shopping. Tell…
My husband looked over my shoulder at exactly the wrong moment.
When pandemic lockdowns began, I wanted to connect with my kids.
So I did…
I bought the pumpkin.
Its official name is “Medium Dark Woven Pumpkin by Threshold.” I bought it at Target because Target is a Siren, singing…
We have to talk about apple picking for a minute.
We’re suburban parents. Apple picking is as much a requirement for fall as pretending…
I was reading this month’s Real Simple magazine — that thing is just a little pocket of joy in your day, let me tell you…
I was in preschool when my mom took a new job.
Her schedule was erratic. An evening here. A weekend there.
I was erratic too…
A few months ago, I wrote about my parents’ friendship with the man I now call my future stepdad. Neither he nor my actual dad…
I’m not a dog person. We should just get that out of the way right now.
We’ve been together in this column, you…
I’m in love.
It’s a terrible kind of love, the kind you know will be lost – like watching Jack and Rose in Titanic…
I still feel dirty.
I cleaned the bathrooms yesterday. Stem to stern. Head to toe. Every nook and cranny. Pick your idiom, because I did…
I once had a boyfriend who borrowed $400. He broke up with me before it occurred to him I had more paychecks coming.
Months later…
I am writing to you from vacation.
Not our normal vacation, the kind I call “Rank Working Vacations.”
Rank Working Vacations are not for those…
I attended an event this weekend. I slept in a tent, pitched in a field alongside scores of other campers.
I knew going into this…
The dreaded camping trip has arrived.
This may be hard to believe, but I have a problem bigger than the paucity of plumbing.
I don…
When I was thirteen, my mom gave me a book about adolescence and puberty.
For Christmas.
In front of my dad.
And my grandmother.
And…
In a week’s time, I will attend the company picnic for this very publication. I work remotely, which means some of my co-workers…
The guest opinion piece in The New York Times warned of new pandemics long after COVID-19 has flittered off into the nether.
I cringed…
My camping experience is limited and questionable. Is it really camping when you’re in a roofed cabin at Girl Scout camp? Or in a…
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