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Shifting (from the Momplex Blog archives)
I am sitting in one of my favorite coffee/wine shops. Two women, upwards of 50, are arguing about real estate at at a table nearby. “Don’t tell me that!” one practically shouts at the other, a real estate agent with a smart teal coat and a ruby-red shirt, a boy peacock of sorts. The peacock…
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FIVE (from the Momplex Blog archives)
While baby naps… I asked you if you wanted apples or cheese for a snack. You said graham crackers. I asked you to be quiet while you went upstairs. You tip-toed so melodramatically that you fell into the wall. I told you I’d be down after I dried my hair. WHAT!? you yelled at the…
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Psychobabble (from the Momplex Blog archives)
This won’t be pretty. There will be blood, lots of it. Your hair is going to fall out in big clumps in the drain. You might become chronically anemic. It will be expensive, of course. And you’ll never sleep well again. Get yourself a good chiropractor and therapist. Vomiting is a given. So is diarrhea.…
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