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Thankfully, war and its very concept is completely foreign to me.  I have never lived in a country where I’ve had to question my basic rights as a woman.  Or as a person.  I live in a country, as do many of us, where we get to complain about taxes, about our government, and about […]

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Although my parents are unwilling to confirm it, I know that a gigantic bug with an especially painful bite terrorized and then attacked me when I was a defenseless baby. It altered my psyche and I’m still reeling.  Because I was like, a baby, I wasn’t able to identify the species.  So now, for safety […]

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Like the good mom that I am, I make Tucker a hot breakfast each morning.  Well, pretty much every morning.  Some days he gets cereal and fruit.  Oh, and that one day, he had Oreos.  But, whatever, today was a hot breakfast day.  While I was slaving in the kitchen, my adorable sweet boy came […]

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I just realized last night that I haven’t been helping Tucker practice saying “Trick or Treat.” Last year, he had just turned two in July.  When October 31 came along, it seemed like him not saying anything was ok.  He was still a baby.  But this year, people generally expect so much more of him.  […]

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I think I was in third grade when my dad tried to take my younger brother and me to see the original Star Wars movie.  After bouncing with excitement for more than an hour while standing in a line that snaked itself all the way around the building, we were turned away from a sold-out […]

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Sometimes I look at Tucker’s gorgeous, smooth, wrinkle-free baby skin and want a time-travel machine to visit my teenage self.  I’ll slap then-me for going to the tanning salon, sunbathing using baby oil, and for skiing without sunscreen. I wonder if my skin would look more like his, now, had I done a more diligent […]

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