So I’m supposed to be frantically nesting, apparently. So far this has meant ordering things on Amazon and scheduling lunch dates with all the people I’m afraid I won’t see again for years once I have my constant companion. Lewis, on the other hand, has taken to nesting quite earnestly. Or maybe he’s taking advantage …
So I’ve said my good-byes to my 20’s. Tomorrow I turn 30. I will begin this decade as a mother and wife. As a homeowner. With a stable job, and a side gig I really love. I have two dogs. In one sense, none of that “external stuff” changes you or grows you up. You …
I’m turning 30 at the end of this month. Officially out of my 20’s. No longer can I assertively talk about fashion, music, or technology with absolute certainty that what I am saying is current and hip. No longer can I wear whatever I want to and assume I will come off as “young and …
I need to apologize to my mother. For the last 30 years I have been so assured of my own immortality that I’ve probably terrified her within an inch of her own. Over Skype, “Surprise, Mom! I’m in the middle east! Hear that? It’s the call to prayer!” Late one night while home from college, …
…make carbonated, fresh-squeezed lemonade. We have a lemon tree. It’s right outside our bedroom window, and it’s really a charming, sturdy feature of the backyard. I’ve watched our meyer lemons come back after a freeze in 2011 when we thought they were gone forever. But here they are, slowing growing ripe and orange (which is …
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What is it about reproduction that turns perfectly lovely and polite people into giant oafish wrecking balls. I’ve been genuinely shocked by how often certain things are said and done. Things I’d heard about and thought, “Surly no one really says that sort of thing!” They do. And it’s funny, because no one feels like …
Recently Lewis and I inherited a record collection from the most fascinating woman on earth. The story is amazing, but only Lewis can really tell it, because he was the one who spent the afternoon looking through nude sketches and still life paintings with a 91 year old German lady, and walking away with half …
I’ve never been accused of being a homebody. Travel and adventure are probably my favorite hobbies. Jumping off of things, eating weird things, finding new modes of transportation. I love it. And I still do, in theory. But as my belly grows, I’m finding this weird compulsion to stay in my house where everything is …
Florence visits the ranch and is aghast at how uncool Wiley is in the car. (read in the voice of Florence, which sounds uncannily like a 14-year-old Claire Danes) I love my life in the city…it’s, like, full of energy and stimulation. The dogs on my block…they bark all. the. time. Bekah gets really really …
Throughout my adult life, I’ve had a conflict with Christmas. There were the “social constructivist” years, in which I was loathe to celebrate the holiday because I believed it was nothing more than a modern American holiday celebrating sentimentality and excess. I was so much fun to be around. There were the “socially conscious” years, …