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Here’s looking at you, kid
It has been suggested that I seek professional help so many times that I’ve lost count. There was the recommendation of grief counseling after my parents died, the prevention of postpartum depression...
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To be or not to be…
…that is the question. This past Christmas, I bought myself a special gift. I ordered the weekend edition of The New York Times. On Sunday evenings, I kick everyone out of the living room so I can...
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Generation Why
Young and set in her ways. On the morning Ava was born, my husband and friend stood at the nursery window and stared at the 7.3 pound baby girl who had just failed her sucking test. Her lips remained...
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Lordy, lordy! Look who’s…
The beginning of May is a tremendously stressful time for my husband. It begins with my birthday on the seventh and it ends with Mother’s Day weekend. Two behemoth holidays (yes, Katy Day counts in...
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Signed, Sealed, Delivered
She slept through it all. Ten years ago, I ate a pound of tortilla chips dredged in hot salsa, chased it with Mexican combo dinner #6, washed all of that down with sweet tea, and then walked a mile...
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A Real Page Turner
There are certain childhood memories that refuse to fade. I distinctly remember coming home from a friend’s house one afternoon to face my mother, sitting in her living room chair, smoking what had to...
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Enough Said
School daze. I may have learned more about life in sixth grade than any other age, stage or phase. It was an awkward time fueled by being in the same building with the same people since kindergarten....
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Make-Up Test
Katy Brown isn’t cool. Maybe Katie Holmes is. The second Ava turned 10, she asked if she could wear makeup. No. Could she have a cell phone? No. Could she open a Facebook account? No. Could she...
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A Meaningless Word
I absolutely despise the word popular, and I truly believe it is the most meaningless word in the English language. Its lack of meaning is followed closely by the word “successful,” but popular still...
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Behind the Closed Door
Sometimes, the lessons we need the most arrive before we know what to do with them. They are handed to us, and we simply put them to the side, let them simmer and almost forget about them. Then one...
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