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Naming Babies
It turns out that naming babies is not much at all like naming characters. And by “naming babies” I don’t mean naming other people’s babies. I saw a baby once that looked like a Donald Trump puppet,...
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Disclaimer: My blog posts may lean a little to the baby side for a few weeks. 5. Cliché. A writer is generally supposed to avoid cliché characters, but raising a baby seems to be a shroud of deliberate...
View ArticleIf Newborn Babies Wrote Blogs
Today I got the hiccups. That was pretty cool. I can see how it might get old after a while, but right now it’s all new.
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living with twin girls: three months
Today the twins are three months old. I’ve been meaning to write something about the experience of them, but in the jumble of clichés and Frequently Asked Questions, the friendly advice and expert...
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Ring out the old year, toss it in the dryer, add fabric softener
It seems to be the thing to do this time of year to say “ok bai” to the year that’s slipped behind us and “oh hai” to the one that just popped up on the horizon. ok bai 2007 I had some of my worst and...
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Addicted to Standing
Boss #2 has a problem. She’s addicted to standing. She’s youngest of my twin girls, approaching 8 months of age. A couple of weeks ago she learned how to pull herself up and stand. She hasn’t quite...
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