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Documentary reviews, body neutrality, parenting, Jupiter, piano, cats, European history, ghosts, rodents, the collapse of civilization, and if this goes on long enough I'll probably end up cataloguing my entire smushed penny collection.

Month: April 2023

  • Home Alone

    My kids are old enough to be left home alone now for very short periods of time. It’s a game changer, and the biggest parenting level up I have experienced since the day the youngest went to Kindergarten. Driving to the paint store without grumpy kids in tow this weekend brought back memories of my…

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  • That Disney Adult post that you all knew was coming.

    I’ve been trying to think of a clever way to present this new information to you all, but I guess I’ll just come out and say it. I love Walt Disney World. We went during spring break this year. It was too crowded. It was too hot. The wait times were too long. And I…

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  • Margaret

    I bring my kids to swim lessons on Monday afternoons. The swim school is great but overwhelming: too many harried parents and chaotic, wet children. There’s a toddler and father pair who are always there at the same time as us. The little girl must be around two years old and her name is Margaret.…

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  • Spring Cleaning

    I’m doing some spring cleaning around the house. This is the first time I’ve ever done an intentional deep clean in the spring, and I am largely motivated by our time spent at a Disney World resort last week. This place is a real dump compared to Saratoga Springs! It’s amazing how much time this…

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  • Happy Little Hops

    My kids are eight and ten years old. They both have this strange habit of adding in happy little hops as they walk. Four steps, hop, five steps, skip, three steps, hop. It’s very cute, and I know it won’t last. I would like to remember this.

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