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Goodbye Harold
I met Harold in the aftermath of a hurricane. We were both fugitives, running from homes without heat or electricity into a neighbor’s home with both. We were lucky enough to be invited to stay for some company and a meal. Harold was warm and present in a way that made me instantly like him. …
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Boredom Takes a Little While
This weekend my husband and daughters, their friend and I drove down the shore to the Manasquan River near Point Pleasant beach. When you’re from New Jersey (and probably parts of PA), you say “down the shore” not “down to the shore”. It’s a dead giveaway for those in-the-know and those visiting from out of…
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Unscheduled Stop: While Celebrating Halloween
Much to my dismay, a lot more people love Halloween than anticipated. And they are everywhere. Inviting me to stuff.
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Unscheduled Stop: While Being a Great Sports Parent
My husband and I have considered it an important enough parenting goal and have stuck to the script many times over the years. But other times, I swear it was like I was lifted by helicopter out of my body and over the 6-minute soliloquy I was delivering about boxing out before I realized how…
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Unscheduled Stop: While Giving Up on Dreams
I didn’t know why, of all the things available to me to learn, I chose juggling. I know now that it had something to do with the fact that it would be observed as pretty cool.
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Unscheduled Stop: While Dropping Off Clothes
We’ve done this one other time. Just him and me. He eventually located my clothes for pick-up, and I left with a receipt for the ones I dropped off. But I have no idea how it happened and I’m pretty sure he doesn’t either.
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Unscheduled Stop: While Taking Time Off
It felt like I needed a break. It took effort, but I didn’t relent. My answer was meek at first, then gained strength as I practiced. “I don’t know.” Terrifying.
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While Experiencing A Growth Spurt
As I explain to my daughters, if you lined up 100 women to display our average height, I would be the 100th in line. If stress is wishing something were different than it is, then whoever figured that out was probably in middle school at the time.
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While Traveling With Twins
We planned for a lot of things before our twin daughters arrived, but never leaving the apartment again wasn’t exactly one of them. It did sort of happen for a while after they were born. “Getting ready” wasn’t worth it and somehow became a new thing we constantly talked about. “Do we have everything we…
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While Practicing Yoga
Even though they will tell you it is okay to fall out of the pose, it doesn’t feel okay to fall out of the pose and then onto the ground in a giant, embarrassing thud.
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