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Parenting posts that include the touching, the embarrassing, the annoying, the typical, the atypical, the whatever. You just have to be a parent to get these.

It’s been a few weeks since I did a thankful post, and I’m very thankful for the fact that my co-hosts have been forgiving of that (and thankful for the article that Zoe sent me). I am beyond thankful for the fact that I was able to have THREE margaritas with an IRL friend recently, and did […]

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The word autism entered my heart as a whisper. It later entered my brain as a possibility. Later still, it entered my life. I worried, bought a book on autism, devoured it, and then felt like that must not be what my son has. He was nothing like the boy in the book.  “Maybe,” I […]

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It’s that time of week again. No, weirdos, I said WEEK, not month. Sheesh. It’s the time when we force ourselves, occasionally less-than willingly, to acknowledge the things for which we are thankful. This week, I’m thankful for the following: Friends who don’t mind my kid totally violating her kids’ bedrooms when a six-kid playdate is […]

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Last night, I had somebody wonder why anybody would read a blog, or write one. I was getting ready to leave my book club group, and already had my coat on. I sat down, too warm, ready to leave, but enthralled. I wanted her to understand, and to answer her properly, although I ended up […]

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Do you ever take walks at night and peer through lit windows, wondering at the lives of other people? I took such a walk recently and I want to tell you about it, because I can’t stop thinking about the family that I saw. Imagining them. Wondering what led them to the life that they […]

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