I yam what I yam

Posted on November 25, 2009 | Category: Uncategorized | 5 Comments

I recently read a beautiful piece in Oprah Magazine entitled “You Are What I Eat,” in which the author reflects on all the meals she ate while pregnant with her daughter, and how the ingredients of those meals — “candy-striped beets, a hot dog from Shea Stadium, a curried chicken sandwich, black grape raita, chocolate [...]

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Working girl

Posted on November 20, 2009 | Category: Uncategorized | 12 Comments

One of the reasons I went to Germany for work last month was to immerse myself in a world I thought I’d never, ever want to be a part of. Ever since I started this job in book publishing, my managers have tried to convince me to cross over to the Dark Side, as they [...]

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Feet on the ground

Posted on November 16, 2009 | Category: Uncategorized | 9 Comments

I fell down this weekend. That’s not a metaphor for my mental state. I actually hooked my foot on the baby gate between the kitchen and the laundry room while stepping over and fell down on top of it, scraping my arm on the metal latch and bruising the hell out of my inner thigh [...]

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All the king’s men

Posted on November 13, 2009 | Category: Uncategorized | 5 Comments

The other day, I dropped Rowan off at daycare a little later than normal (usually he’s the first one there), and all the other kidlets starting cheering, “Rowan’s here! Rowan’s here!” in their adorable little voices. “Yes, the king is here,” joked the daycare lady in response to the wee crowd clamoring for Rowan’s attention. [...]

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Lazy eye

Posted on November 4, 2009 | Category: Uncategorized | 13 Comments

In case you hadn’t noticed, I’ve been keeping a pretty low profile on the interwebz as of late. This, after someone close to me suggested (accused?) that maybe I was addicted to the internet. No, seriously. Like, I needed an intervention of the A&E kind. I heartily laughed when she (OK fine, it was my [...]

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