So there we were, my husband David and I, on a road trip with our thirteen-year-old late last July, and I hadn't a thing to wear. And when I say road trip, you have to understand that I'm being somewhat...
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It's Christmas Eve and, for the seventh year in a row, we're on our way down Lakeshore Drive, headed for St. Clement. Technically, we live in Queen of Angels parish, and we're registered members at Our Lady of Mount Carmel....
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It's 6:30 on a Friday night, and Kirby and Ben have just finished their bath. Two naked rumps bounce past me on their way to the bedroom, where they will be prominently featured in the nightly naked booty dance--a joyful...
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I see the squirrel rummaging under dusty roadside oaks, just a moment before we park our car. Its fluffy tail is the color of winter: chestnut and pale sandy browns like cold, wet earth flecked with the white of lingering...
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I Steal: Our son is very young, not much over two, and we want to take him to the zoo. We are poor and have no cash between us, not much in our checking accounts, and we only use credit...
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I have been feeling it lately; 38 years old and I want a third baby. I thought I had wrestled my impractical desire to the back burner; I even did a ritual where I passed it out of my hands...
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