It is really hard to admit when I am overwhelmed. I should qualify that: I’m not overwhelmed to the point where I just can’t function anymore. I’m just … situationally overwhelemed. Like, at work, I can hold it together while I talk to desperate people in desperate situations. I can smack down the email that
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Since the list format for blogging seems to be so popular lately, here is another stab I am taking at itemizing the jumbled thoughts in my brain into quick-fix entries that are at least loosely organized under a specific theme. This week: what are some of the many, many (many …) things that I’m no longer
My Momfession? I’m PREGNANT! I know, I know, this is not the photo of the amazing embryo I talked about just the other week. I’ve been holding out on you, like I warned you I would, until we were ready to make the announcement. But here’s our squirmy baby at 15 weeks, pausing just long
My sister is in town from Chicago this week, for a last visit to Connecticut before moving to California to take a tenure-track assistant professor position. She is dissertating (is that a verb?) this summer to get her Ph.D. in political science. She is 29, and I am 34. At 29, I was getting married
I am sitting here in my office at work, just a few minutes before 8:00 p.m., as I usually am on Friday nights, because this is when my weekly CTWM blog post is due. Every week, I tell myself I am going to draft my post ahead of time so it’s ready to go by
