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In Which Grampa Orders the Fiesta Salad
One senior citizen’s portal to joy. Every two weeks or so, I clean Grampa’s apartment at the retirement complex. Vacuuming every corner of a tidy widower’s apartment is less important (at least to a...
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Sailing and Tarantulas: An Unauthorized Tribute to My Mother
Mom, Dad, me, and younger brother Bradley. I’m unhappy in this picture. I think it’s Easter morning when I was around five years old. What would a little girl like me have to be unhappy about that...
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It Would Be Better If I’d Never Been Born: Depression and Parenthood
Perennially controversial comic Sarah Silverman touched a nerve this week in a TV interview that set off a new round of commentary on modern parenting. The Week magazine rounded up the perspectives...
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How to Stop Your Wife from Having Tantrums at Costco, and Other Christian...
I recently stumbled across a marriage-themed Christian blog that hijacked my thoughts for days. Sometimes, when I go on the internet, I wish there was a TSA for my mind, patting down ideas and...
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When Dogs Lie.
Java and Dexter, my aunt and uncle’s dogs, an excitable cocker spaniel/poodle mix and a trembling, devoted Jack Russell Terrier, trained their gaze on my uncle with the focus of weapons guidance...
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Thoughts on Babysitting Which I May Sorely Regret Making Public
Back in the days when I needed a babysitter. It seems that not everyone who gives birth to a child actually wants to spend all of her time with said child. Thank God for other people’s children, at...
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Until You Are Gray.
This is a special guest post by my high-school classmate, Denielle, a mom of three. About two years ago, she lost her husband to suicide. A few weeks ago, her husband’s brother also took his own life....
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The Big Dead Goldfish Dilemma
Do fish go to heaven? Not every Princess’s passing makes the news. She cost just a few cents when I bought her – a tiny orange dart. My youngest sister-in-law, whose own middle name is Princess, became...
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Happy Birthday, Honey! Now I know what it’s like to conduct an affair.
Last year, as we got ready to celebrate five years married and ten years together, I decided to throw my husband Lala a surprise party for his 30th birthday. A big party is consuming enough to plan,...
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Introducing the Erick Erickson Scientific Family Foundation
The last few weeks have been busy ones for RedState.com editor Erick Erickson, following his controversial comments about working women on Lou Dobbs’ May 29th Fox Business News Program. But on Friday,...
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The Art of the Yard Sale, Part 2
Last year, in his own words, you heard all about the epic Jersey Shore yard sale that my brother Brad holds each July with our mom and dad. Born without the collecting and selling impulse, I’m a...
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Red Flags, Resentful Wives and a Better Way: an interview with “Mastering the...
Author Erin Flynn Jay Writer, PR maven and mom Erin Flynn Jay told herself for years that she’d write a book. After managing her own business for ten years and having her second daughter, she decided...
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Modern Love, the 700-Pound Carrot, and the Agony of “Probably”: a Chat with...
Writer Janet in the kitchen with her daughter. Philadelphia writer Janet Benton can tell you what it feels like when lightning strikes—as long as you understand that installing the lightning rod was...
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Dispatches from the Last Empty Uterus in America
The blogger earlier this year. Y’all were busy on Valentine’s Day this year, weren’t you? I know because at least four of my friends have given birth within the last two weeks. From where I sit,...
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I have seen the price of evil, and it’s $7.99
Sometimes, you have to give something the benefit of the doubt. And sometimes, you just know. With a parent devoted to an extremely eclectic and successful eBay store built on hundreds of items...
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When Dogs Lie.
Java and Dexter, my aunt and uncle’s dogs, an excitable cocker spaniel/poodle mix and a trembling, devoted Jack Russell Terrier, trained their gaze on my uncle with the focus of weapons guidance...
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Christmas Extravaganza
Christmas morning 2010, c. 9am This is the face of readiness. As you can see, Cuda, the cockapoo who replaced my brother and me in my parents’ home when we grew up, gets his own stocking. He knows...
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