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some thoughts on art, writing, and motherhood

BOB 2016 Stroller Strides Fitness Stroller Review

I recently upgraded our stroller and since E and I are both thoroughly obsessed with it, I thought I would share our BOB 2016 Stroller Strides Fitness Stroller review. When E was about 4 months old, I hastily purchased a jogging stroller from a consignment store. The snap-and-go stroller wasn't cutting it for walks around the neighborhood, but since that was all I saw myself doing with it, I didn't put too much research into the purchase. Less than a month later, I joined Stroller Strides. We...

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On Achieving Iced Coffee Perfection

I love coffee. Kinda. It's probably more accurate to say I like coffee-flavored milk. Which is where my Starbucks Gold Card comes in. Nothing I make at home tastes quite as good as what I can get for $5 at the drive-thru. Until today. Over the weekend, I devoured Jenny Rosenstrach's new book, How to Celebrate Everything. It's every bit as good as Dinner: A Love Story and Dinner: The Playbook. When I came to her husband's method for making iced coffee concentrate in a french press, I...

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On Writing, and Being Known

"You certainly have a way with words... when you take your time," my 11th grade US History teacher said as he handed my paper on Hemingway back to me, a big red "A" scrawled on top. Writing has always been my thing. It's as natural to me as drawing air into my lungs. I discovered the transformative power of journaling at an early age, filling page after page of cheap spiral bound notebooks with both the mundane and the significant events of my life. I've written love letters, hundreds of...

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