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Enough Love for Two Kids?
Wildly in love with my firstborn, I couldn’t fathom how I’d find room in my heart for another child. I literally wept with worry.
My Dollhouse: Life … but littler
I had a dollhouse. A dazzling, one-of-a-kind dollhouse that my father built for me. A blue two-story Victorian with an Astroturf lawn, white Popsicle-stick fence and working lights — and switches — in every room.
From the Control Tower
Sometimes it feels like 99% of parenting is manipulation.
GIVE?! I think I get it.
It’s the same absurd episode every year. About a week into Winter Break, my children take on the properties of common pond leeches.
Lazing around in their pajamas day after day, they suck down eggnog and cookies till the gifts come, then invariably whine about what they DON’T have: the proper batteries, the money to buy [...]
Things You Never Thought You’d Say
Don’t let the dog lick your privates
and other things you never thought you’d say.
By Starshine Roshell
I’m what they call a word person, prefering “viridian” to dreary green, and never uttering “confused” when “flummoxed” is within reach.
An English major whose motif-musing and allusion-hunting skills have proven all but useless in the real world, I take admittedly [...]



