What’s worse than trying on jeans? Trying on swimsuits. At least for me, anyway. I’ve avoided swimming just because I didn’t want to buy a bathing suit. Even when I was pre-baby and cigarette-smoking thin, I hated it. Then it got even...
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Note: A semi-revised essay of this article was later published on The Huffington Post titled, Actually I Don’t Want My Life To Be Like An Audrey Hepburn Movie. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urQVzgEO_w8&w=640&h=360] Yesterday I pulled on faded...
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Sometimes Drew and I like to talk about what kind of person Nathaniel will grow up to be. What will he be interested in? How will he spend his days? What will his friends be like? When Nathaniel’s teachers tell me that he enjoyed an art project, it always makes...
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Quotes from the New York Magazine article All Joy and No Fun: Why Parents Hate Parenting by Jennifer Senior Published July 4, 2010 As I told you guys recently, I didn’t always want to be a mother. In fact, I’ve spent most of my years on this planet...
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Back in 2003, I wrote an essay titled Are You Sure? In this essay, I thoughtfully laid out the reasons why I never wanted to have children. I sent it to Jane and Glamour, and while neither magazine published my manifesto, I received personalized handwritten rejections...
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