Can you guess…

what a very pregnant woman and a potty-training three-year-old have in common?Of course you could.

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Compensations

After three years of motherhood, I am still getting used to this job. I still remember the lovely unencumbered feeling of going where I wanted to without first asking “Will the stroller fit? Are kids welcome? Can they make noise? Where can I change them?” Sometimes I miss the freedom [...]

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Still Here

I have not posted in a while, but I am still around. I am very, very round.
I walked through the library the other day and passed two young black men. One stared pointedly at my belly and said, “Daaa-yaamm!”
I did not kill him, but I thought about it. [...]

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Sweet Talk in the Last Trimester

Me: I don’t know how you can still like me. I’m not nice, I’m not funny. I’m just large. Large and grumpy.
Him: You are still my witty wife. You’re just tired of being pregnant.
Me: But all I do is moan and groan and I’m not even [...]

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Second Sunday in Lent

O shut me round with narrowing nunnery-walls,Meek maidens, from the voices crying ’shame.’I must not scorn myself: he loves me still.Let no one dream but that he loves me still.So let me, if you do not shudder at me,Nor shun to call me sister, dwell with you;Wear black and white, and be a nun like [...]

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