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  • Miss Mayo

    Have you ever donated blood? Until yesterday, I hadn’t. My only previous attempt was in the late ’80s, at a blood drive at my high school, when I was told my veins were too small. I’ve always assumed that there was no reason to try again, but yesterday I had three reasons to check that……

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  • Fewer wrinkles

    Some lady with a wad of gum wedged in her molars is always trying to sell me crotch deodorant on social media, but it’s going to be OK.

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  • Prickly Pear Guestbook

    “I am twice married but not a bigamist.” For the past couple of years, I’ve been trying on different ways to say that my children’s dad and I are divorced and that I’ve since remarried but say it in a way that lays clear there’s no villain in the narrative. I don’t like saying “second……

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  • New Traditions: Acknowledging (and Celebrating) the Suck (from the Momplex Blog archive)

    Five years ago, my then-husband and I moved into separate homes within a short drive of each other and began the second phase of our forever-joined lives. Learning to be co-parents with the attendant emotional acrobatics of disentangling our souls through divorce wasn’t easy after 15-plus years together. But I was at least proud of……

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  • Have you COVID’ed your COVID today? (from the Momplex Blog archive)

    A lot has changed in the zillion years since I last wrote. Like right now, I’m sitting in my makeshift home office wearing a “What’s a Bra?” t-shirt that I wore to bed last night and also wore to several Skype work meetings today (video off, thank you very much). I’ve just finished playing another……

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  • Bitty Buddha 101: What to Do When You Meet Someone with a Bad Name (from the Momplex Blog archive)

    I think being part of the human tribe is hard, but for my seven-year-old Buddha, it seems kind of cake-walky. It’s not that nothing bad ever happens to him. I mean, a few weeks ago he breathlessly announced that he was pretty sure he’d met a bully at school. Yet his thrilled expression matched that of someone who’d spotted a Yeti. Some boy had……

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