April 2010

I Think We’re Alone Now.

April 30, 2010

Things have been trending pleasantly uphill, here—spring is springing, and all that—but Wednesday night veered sharply off course. It was a night of mysteries: How do children know what would be the most inconvenient time for injury or illness? What counts as “illness,” anyway? If a baby falls into a wooden footboard, does it make [...]

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So…How About That Local Sports Team?

April 20, 2010

One of the questions someone asked on formspring was whether I ever wish I were anonymous here, and the answer is yes, sometimes I do. My first serious boyfriend had a website that he’d started when he was 16—it had journal entries, and pictures, and audio of his various musical endeavors. It was a blog, [...]

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THEY ARE RISEN!

April 5, 2010

On Sunday, I took Simone to see her Nani, who is visiting from Zug (is it just me, or does that sentence sound like something an alien would say? Zug being a small but densely populated planet several lightyears from Earth, obviously). Scott and I don’t celebrate Easter, per se, but it seemed unfair to [...]

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