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from "pick-me" to misandrist to grown-up
or how I learned to make friends with good men in middle-age.
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this is a love letter to all the mothers in the Children's Hospital ER at 11:11 pm on a Tuesday night
and also everywhere else
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secret and not-so-secret smokers
I see you, mom in the stop and drop line, not giving a fuck and I salute you with a lighter extended out the sunroof. FREEBIRD!
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the loneliness of the long distance driver
(or how traffic is a poet)
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1. the year I became a sports mom
for the love of the bench-huddled mothers and the children we cheer on together
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"don't worry. it will grow"
the braid turns one.
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writing about death during a war
(and there is always a war)
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in which I attempt the impossibility of articulating the language of my cells
I am standing in the kitchen. I am standing in the kitchen over a sink full of dirty dishes. I am standing in the kitchen over a sink of dirty dishes…
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mothers are people, too
and we need to stop acting so surprised when women act like it.
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refuse feedback (when you need to) and it will set you free
in defense of an occasionally closed comment section, paywalling the personal and the difference between resilience and bravery, unlikability and hate.
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"and the feet broke free..."
on one-way tickets home and walks through the rain between freeways
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In Transition and Through Chaos, We Sing
A love letter to Miceli's Hollywood, the cacophony of life and my son who leaves for college tomorrow. (there's such a lot of world to see.)
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