I was recently at a playground with my five-year-old niece Evie. It was a beautiful spring day, and Evie hopped onto a teeter-totter with another little girl about the same age.
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I had a conversation with friends recently about our childhoods and especially our mothers. Both of the women I was talking to had serious difficulties with their moms, and each expressed the feeling that they thought that their mother didn't really like them much.
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As I was finishing a meeting downtown one morning, I checked the DC NextBus iphone app and saw that a bus was arriving at my stop in just seven minutes.
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This morning, like most mornings, my husband’s iphone alarm went off at 4:00 am. He promptly turned it off. Around 5:00 am, our sunrise clock began to glow, but neither one of us noticed.
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While I was out walking the dogs in the cold this morning, I noticed all of the empty flowerbeds in my neighbors' front yards.
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Last week I had an argument with my partner, to whom I've been married for 26 years. I was showing him around my new office space, and he made a joke about it.
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A few weeks ago, I invited a friend to visit me in DC and I planned a relaxing weekend for the two of us in the Virginia mountainside.
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Last month, someone asked me how I got a tan on my face in the middle of the winter. So I explained.
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Thanksgiving at our house is pretty funny. In our family we have several committed meat eaters, a few vegans, one experienced foodie, one daughter with food sensitivities, and those whose needs vary each year.
Read MoreDear Friends, I recently returned from lovely long weekend at a friend’s cabin on an island off the grid in Canada. Before I left, I was feeling stretched pretty thin with many different activities, travel, guests, and the resurgence of one of our adult child’s life challenges. I looked forward to cabin time, surrounded by beautiful blue lake, the sound of loons...
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