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Where Would You Go?
It started as it always does, with some permutation of the question, “What if we moved to New York?” It happens every time we are there. Without fail. GAP and I spent the weekend in Manhattan. He...
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Stress Test
I had to fill out a questionnaire about my health for work. Do I smoke? Do I exercise? Do I get regular check-ups? That sort of thing. These types of questions usually leave me feeling a smidge...
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Learning to Wait
“Learn to wait.” They are words my grandfather is famous for, though I most often heard them from my mother. “You remember what Granddaddy always says, ‘Learn to wait,’” she would remind us. In these...
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Frankie Say Relax
My laziness was an end in itself: to relax. I’ve had stress on the brain a lot lately.* (See posts here and here.) Work has been crazy for the past few weeks. The holidays are wonderful, but they...
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Wicked Happy
Happiness has been on my mind a great deal lately. It was one of Momalom’s Five for Ten themes. It is the sole subject matter of Gretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project, which I’m currently devouring....
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No Duds
I am finicky when it comes to chocolates. I’m a big dessert person, but not a big candy person. If I’m going to indulge in something so unabashedly rich and indulgent, I want to really love it. If I...
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Happiness Is More Than a Rolls Royce
As I ushered the little boys (as JDP and SSP have been termed in our family) out onto the church playground after collecting them from the nursery we approached two much older boys (probably nine or...
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Sad Face
Is there a part of the human experience that you could do without? Is there some universal aspect of this life gig we’re all currently living that we would like to factor out of the equation? I’m not...
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The other night JDP lolly-gagged contentedly in the bathtub. His brothers were already bathed and jammied, and he was happy to be in the tub alone without anyone to steal his toy boats and trucks, so...
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Does the Medium Matter?
Not to get too ecclesiastical about it, but there is a time and a place for everything. A bridal shower is no place to discuss marital woes. Lunch with coworkers is no place to discuss your child’s...
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