Month: April 2013
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Bebe update: Two years
Bebe, A couple nights ago you couldn’t sleep. You came to bed with me, and we spooned for a bit. After years and years of considering I may just be more of a fork, I realized a truth: You, me, right now, in this moment, are the perfect spoon. Two years ago, as the sun…
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Speaking up.
It won’t be long before Jewish parents of school-age children no longer remember the point. The memory becomes a faded square of yellow fabric, eventually disintegrating under museum lighting. The pictures, cliche. The speeches, routine. It’s probably already true to some degree, but most of us are young enough to remember the first time we…
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Fifty-Two Frames: Body Parts
If you were taking your kids out for as rare a treat as ice cream… And you got to the counter after getting vicariously excited about their love of chocolate… And your super-excited superman-inspired new-favorite-color-is-blue son notices the bright, bold, downright disturbing flavor at the very end of the case… And looks at you with…
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Fifty-Two Frames: Lines
Week 13: Lines Sky lines.