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There was a boy in my etching class in high school who had one arm. It was amputated above the elbow and he never used a prosthetic. Everyone in the class was learning printmaking for the first time, so we were all coming at it from a level playing field.One part of printmaking is that after your metal plate is ready, you heat it while putting on the ink in order to get the ink to sink into the

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Those who follow me on Twitter know that we've become smitten with a squirrel who lives in our front yard. And by "we" I mean everyone in this house who is not Josh. Josh may have a problem with the squirrel because we keep feeding him Josh's almonds. But the thing is that Simon loves almonds and we love Simon and we just want the damn squirrel to be happy.One person wanted to name the

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Show and Tell is wasted on elementary schoolers. Join several dozen bloggers weekly to show off an item, tell a story, and get the attention of the class. In other words, this is Show and Tell 2.0. Everyone is welcome to join, even if you have never posted before and just found out about Show and Tell for the first time today. So yank out a photo of the worst bridesmaid's dress you ever wore

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I've been considering self-hosting the blog, mostly so I can upload audio files and bore you with numerous recordings of myself playing the Irish Penny Whistle. I rock that whistle hard. In fact, I keep it on my desk so I can play myself a little Tchaikovsky when I'm trying to think. Have you ever heard Tchaikovsky played on a whistle that can only range 8 notes? It's really an amazing

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The headline on MSNBC read "Woman Implanted with Wrong Embryo," which begs the response: "Media Distracts with Wrong Headline." It's not just the misuse of the word "implant" instead of "transfer," which overpromises science's capabilities (and regardless of the you say to-mah-to, I say to-may-to debate we've had over the years about improper vocabulary, my stance is that this is important

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One night, my freshman year of college, I went to hear a Buddhist monk speak. Part of the talk was about the freeing quality of owning less. It made no sense--the less you have, the more you'll feel in control? Except that my life felt quite out of control at that point, so I was willing to give it the old college try.I went back to my dorm room and dumped most of my possessions in the trash

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I think I'm becoming more grouchy in my old age. Someone sent me a blog post about Internet safety and I got all crotchety and up-in-arms, spewing and sputtering and was about to email the author of the blog because her book was on my to-read list and now it is off my to-read list because I'm just not impressed with her lack of actual discourse and her argument-style of name-calling when I

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Show and Tell is wasted on elementary schoolers. Join several dozen bloggers weekly to show off an item, tell a story, and get the attention of the class. In other words, this is Show and Tell 2.0. Everyone is welcome to join, even if you have never posted before and just found out about Show and Tell for the first time today. So yank out a photo of the worst bridesmaid's dress you ever wore

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Updated at the bottom:AlphaMom recently had a question on the Advice Smackdown about giving pregnancy announcements to those who are infertile or have lost a child. I'm pointing this out mostly because it was actually some great advice and great advice needs to be applauded, especially when we all know there is some shitty advice streaming around out there. Amalah's response is sound and

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Welcome back to another round of Blogger Bingo. Once again, the prize will be a $20 gift certificate to Barnes and Noble. Please read the directions below in order to understand how the game is played and sign up if you wish to participate. Sign up is open now until October 18th at 11 p.m. (EST). Once sign up closes, you will need to wait until the next round to sign up to play.The Point of

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My Perfect Moment is captured in this ten second clip: On Thursday, we decided to go to Chincoteague for the weekend because we hadn't yet been this summer. I think we love the island so much not just because it is literally the greatest beach for crazy birders and non-nature-loving-but-commercialism-hating people alike, but because it is a location that Josh and I collectively peed on to mark

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Baby Smiling in Back Seat has had two Thoughtful Thursdays recently that asked about baby names. In the first, she asked when people chose baby names and in the second, she asked about people scooping your chosen names.I was about to answer this in her comment section, but it sort of deserved a larger space to stretch out. The fact is, I started thinking about names back when I was in college.

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This is a week that has been in my head for five years. We were told that by age five, the twins' adjusted age should catch up with their actual age. Within five years, we wouldn't see a difference between the Wolvog and ChickieNob and their full-term peers. Melissa of now says "bwaaaaah!" to that fact, noting that we still clap when they're on the charts growth-wise at a doctor's visit. They

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Show and Tell is wasted on elementary schoolers. Join several dozen bloggers weekly to show off an item, tell a story, and get the attention of the class. In other words, this is Show and Tell 2.0. Everyone is welcome to join, even if you have never posted before and just found out about Show and Tell for the first time today. So yank out a photo of the worst bridesmaid's dress you ever wore

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We have a winner for the first round of Blogger Bingo (with an honourable mention to Once a Mother):Three of a Kind...She won on the orange card with the following categories. Here's the catch--for the next round of Blogger Bingo, there will be no free space. Instead, you can create your own free space and place it anywhere you wish on the board (in other words, you get a pass for a category,

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Last week, several posts on the greater meaning behind the words child-free or childless floated through the Internet, some said more eloquently than others. Some thought we shouldn't have given attention to the original post but I can't disagree more. When you observe something that bothers you and there is a point to addressing it (because you believe change can come out of addressing it),

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Josh and I spent dinner (my choice--egg noodles with tomato sauce, my reward for all the work I did on the living room today) going over Entertainment Weekly's 50 Best Songs by the Beatles list. Perhaps that list was the best Entertainment Weekly could do because they only think about these things in weekly increments. But we think about our best of lists 24/7. Mostly in chronological order

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For everyone who was holding us in their hearts this week--thank you. We have emerged out the other side for the time being.*******Quote of the Week:ChickieNob: I'm really scared there's a Von Rothbart in my room.Josh: Lucky for you, Von Rothbart is usually accompanied by a 60-piece orchestra so if you don't hear violins coming out from under the bed, you're probably safe.*******The ChickieNob

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Show and Tell is wasted on elementary schoolers. Join several dozen bloggers weekly to show off an item, tell a story, and get the attention of the class. In other words, this is Show and Tell 2.0. Everyone is welcome to join, even if you have never posted before and just found out about Show and Tell for the first time today. So yank out a photo of the worst bridesmaid's dress you ever wore

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Last week or so, the New York Times had an article about PTSD for parents after a NICU experience that Josh forwarded to me, perhaps because I am Tums abuser whenever we need to go remotely near a hospital (though lest you think I am the only neurotic one, Josh commented recently after a doctor's appointment that he couldn't breathe. I think lack of lung power trumps stomachache). I think the

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There is a new way to sign up. Please read the directions below.Welcome back to IComLeavWe. It stands for International Comment Leaving Week, but if you say it aloud, doesn't it sounds like "I come; [but] leave [as a] we"? And that's sort of the point. Blogging is a conversation and comments should be honoured and encouraged. I like to say that comments are the new hug--a way of saying hello,

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Because posts about family size--like the "without children/with children," breastfeeding, or circumcision factions--tend to bring out the same type of people who don't actually read the post but instead just leave a comment furthering their argument, I thought I'd address these bullet points before jumping into this post:I have no strong feelings about family size. I don't think we should look

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Back in college, there was one of those nights where we were up at 4 a.m. eating Pokey sticks, and wondering if my blue was my friends' blue, and "Watching the Wheels" came on. And someone commented that while the song obviously rocked, it had a limited usage. Like Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes" could be used by any mooning teenager. Or every Bat Mitzvah can be enhanced with a version of "

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I just read this and sent it on to a friend and wasn't going to blog it and got halfway up the stairs and said to myself, "if you don't write it out, you won't get anything accomplished today because it will bother you for the next six hours."Read it and come back.My largest problem is her strident stance without knowing the history or division within the larger community of those living

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Show and Tell is wasted on elementary schoolers. Join several dozen bloggers weekly to show off an item, tell a story, and get the attention of the class. In other words, this is Show and Tell 2.0. Everyone is welcome to join, even if you have never posted before and just found out about Show and Tell for the first time today. So yank out a photo of the worst bridesmaid's dress you ever wore

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