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motherhood
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motherhood
For thirty-one years I’ve apologized for you. If that’s not love, what is?
08.22.08 | Permalink | 13 CommentsLast week I went with my sister to look at a house my parents were encouraging her to buy as her divorce approaches. My sister wasn’t very excited about the ‘cow place’ (it backs onto a pasture), and I had to agree with her. On Monday my mom took a plate of “Sorry!” cookies to [...]
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marriage, motherhood
Someday I’ll Go An Entire Twenty-Four Hours Without Saying That
07.23.08 | Permalink | 10 CommentsDid you go potty yet?
Did you wash your hands?
No spitting!
WHY are you taking off your shirt?
Blow. With your nose.
Put your shoes back on!
When’s your father going to be home?
Just eat it!
No!
This is the LAST book!
WHERE did you learn that?
Life ISN’T fair.
I’m sorry you feel that way. I could never never hate you.
Don’t throw that!
Do you [...]
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motherhood, the world
Did You Hear the One About the Sworn Virgins in Albania?
06.25.08 | Permalink | 16 CommentsOnce upon a time in northern Albania, there was a custom of women becoming men. They dressed like men, moved about in society as men, and were content to relinquish traditional female experiences like pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and childrearing, and simple, normal human experiences like sex and the companionship of marriage, with its soaring joys, [...]
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