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A religiously-versatile kid
Mirrored from Dailies.
Last night the same grandparents who had just given her a dollar for the afikomen handed her a loaded Easter basket … and this morning, I’m making a few of the hot cross buns with stars of David on them, for good measure.
Pascal was a piker; if you’re going to hedge your bets, you should frickin hedge your bets.
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Nonspecific incredulity
Mirrored from Dailies.
Scene: in the car, driving to a friends’ house
Piper: “I can’t believe it! I can’t believe it!”
Adam: “What can’t you believe, bug?”
Piper: “I can’t believe that I can’t believe … something.”
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Overblown overnight metaphors
Mirrored from Dailies.
Last night, our bed:
became a diner’s order window
Kate frantically posting green slips and me cooking on the line
for two customers, by turns irate and sending back their soup
No tips
became a steel cage sphere
Kate and I standing at the very bottom, our heads perfectly centered
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Overblown overnight metaphors
Originally published at Dailies. You can comment here or there.
Last night, our bed:
became a diner’s order window
Kate frantically posting green slips and me cooking on the line
for two customers, by turns irate and sending back their soup
No tips
became a steel cage sphere
Kate and I standing at the very bottom, our heads perfectly centered
as two ( Read more... ) -
Absolutely
Mirrored from Dailies.
It’s been a day with a bit more whining and friction than our ideal. But then your kid says something unexpectedly nice to you, and you wind up closing the browser tab with the Google search for “ways to sell my children for scientific experiments.”
Piper, to me, at dinner: “I want you to stay!”
Me: “I’m right here.”
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Unfair comparison du jour
Mirrored from Dailies.
“As near as I recall, your sister never projectile-yakked with such … gusto.”
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She’s probably right
Mirrored from Dailies.
Me to Piper, as we both watch Sydney: “Hey, what do you think Sydney is thinking about?”
Piper: “Something eatable.”
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Two steps back from the brink, one step forward
Mirrored from Dailies.
First, a memory: in 1989, Gil and my mom and David and I took a summer’s driving trip through the American Southwest. All of us lived on academic calendars, so we had three months to putz around the country and learn that a single VW Golf was starting to be not quite enough room for a family of four. When not driving, however ( Read more... ) -
Story time at the dinner table
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Last night, unprompted, Piper started reeling off some stories of her own. I grabbed for my recorder and got several of them down. Recurring themes: a little girl going to bed, snuggling with her polar bear, curtain rods, drinking juice.
Piper Tells a Story: 1 (01:57)
Piper Tells a Story: 2 (01:09)
Phrases that I’ll need to ( Read more... )