time travel is exhausting

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This weekend, I flew to Pittsburgh for a family funeral; my 92-year-old great aunt passed away last week. This was the good kind of funeral, if there is such a thing, the kind of funeral where mourning the deceased means laughing until you cry about that time that you and your brother nearly got into [...]

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grace in small things: twenty nine

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1. Baseball sleeves, little boy size, in black and orange (we couldn’t choose a school with stylish colors, we had to choose the school with good academics — what were we thinking???).
2. Batting helmets, to prevent any (more) brain damage.
3. Socks that come up to their knees and make them look like extras in a [...]

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he didn’t know who I was either

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Do you watch Heroes? I do not, but I’m starting to wish I did, because on Monday, I interviewed Greg Grunberg, who plays the police officer who can read your mind (what’s his name again?) and honestly, he was the Nicest Guy Ever.
You can read more about him at ParentDish — he’s got a cool [...]

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it’s an illusion!

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Over the last few weeks, I’ve gotten a series of lovely emails from various people I work with about different work-related projects, all saying essentially the same thing: “You are so organized! I don’t know how you do it.”
Smoke and mirrors, people. Smoke and mirrors.
Right now every single surface in my living room is covered [...]

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