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Monthly Archive for April, 2010

Neighbors

Today was the Derby parade at KIP, and I’ll post (adorable) pics later. But for now, I really love this shot of Simon playing with his next door neighbor Ruby that I took last night.

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Pedal for the Petals

Ah, perspective. For a year and a half, we’ve been coaxing Simon to use the pedals on his tricycle. For the same time, he’s been resisting our efforts, quite happy to Flintstone it around the block, and quite insistent that we push him up any hills. If we tried to show him how to use […]

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Decluttering

I’m now 30 days into what is supposed to be a difficult period of transition. I’m supposed to feel unmoored by my job loss and craving my old routines. Nothing could be further from the truth. It is no exaggeration to say that I have gotten more done in the last 30 days than I […]

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Sweetheart

Seven months on, Simon’s Oedipal phase continues unabated. He loves it when Matt throws him on the bed, administers “the pile-driver” maneuver, or takes him to the “library” (AKA, coffee shop), but I’m the one he still hoards time with and gives the most spontaneous hugs and kisses to. He’s also taken to calling me […]

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Devil’s Haircut

So we’re in the car last weekend, heading to or from one of the two birthday parties on our agenda. Matt’s USB fob is in the car radio, thus ensuring that he doesn’t have to listen to any song, ever, that he has not vetted. A Beck song comes on. Matt goes to quiz Simon: […]

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The Other Elephant: Part I

Last fall, for a variety of reasons and not for the first time, I began having serious doubts about the longevity of my career in technical publishing. But with my signings in, my back-list strong, and a non-stop stream of family events from mid-October on, I backburnered my concern. Then January came around, I took […]

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Interrogation

Matt and I used to enjoy watching little snippets of NYPD Blue to laugh at the interrogation scenes. So far as we could tell and the show and most other police procedurals depicted, police work mostly amounted to putting suspects in a small room and asking them questions over and over again until they broke […]

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Kitty Friend’s Lucky Day

Monday through Wednesday this week, Kitty Friend moved onto my porch and deck. He waited for us to come out and play, he ran between mine and Simon’s legs when we raced around the house (Simon demands that we alternate winning these races), and he plopped in my mom’s lap for a nice snooze when […]

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Spelling

Overheard in the car on Sunday as we drove past Keneseth Israel. “That’s my school. K-I-P. K-I-P spells preschool.” Sounds like a kicky slogan to me! Also, given my own history of spelling (Never got a 100% on any spelling test ever), this may well be prophetic. (Not that Simon will never get out of […]

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Kitty Friend

Sometimes watching Simon is like watching my soul walk around untethered from my body.  I think once before I said he was a bit like Phillip Pullman’s daemon familiar to me, and that thought still holds true. Friday evening, the two of us were playing chase in the yard. Up the driveway, around to the […]

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