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  • It can sometimes feel like family just happens to you. A never-ending cascade of compulsions, attachments, responsibilities, intimacies. I mean, for one reason or another, many of us may not...

    What’s the Purpose of Your Family?

    Posted on November 7, 2011 | No Comments
    It can sometimes feel like family just happens to you. A never-ending cascade of compulsions, attachments, responsibilities, intimacies. I mean, for one reason or another, many of us may not...

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  • Is it easier to recall the number of times you’ve eaten food that WAS prepared in your own kitchen than food that WASN’T? After undergrad (Happy Sesquicentennial, Vassar!), I didn’t...

    College graduate, Kitchen Kindergarten

    Posted on January 30, 2011 | 5 Comments
    Is it easier to recall the number of times you’ve eaten food that WAS prepared in your own kitchen than food that WASN’T? After undergrad (Happy Sesquicentennial, Vassar!), I didn’t...

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  • In the weeks since that last post, SJ got sick for the first time with a fever, no less. In keeping a 2.5 day new-mother vigil over him worried about...

    The Never-ending Road Trip

    Posted on December 30, 2010 | 2 Comments
    In the weeks since that last post, SJ got sick for the first time with a fever, no less. In keeping a 2.5 day new-mother vigil over him worried about...

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