HeyJaredKAFKA'S BABY
Having a baby is not not like waking up to find you are a cockroach.
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white rabbit (opens the original)
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When the kids sit in front of the campfire, they say “white rabbit white rabbit” for the smoke. Of course the smoke chooses where it goes, and everyone wants to sit close enough to the fire to sharpen their sticks into charcoal pencils, so they often sit there, blotted out, wishing really hard.The campground is organized around a balloon-shaped pond that trails down into a creek, and popular for its family-friendly design: children can ride bikes around the loops unaccompanied by adults, who hav
summer camp fever dream (opens the original)
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There is a tiny cemetery on the side of Route 9. It’s trimmed with ranch-style white fences and is no bigger than a family room. I was driving Japhy up to summer sandlot baseball when I passed it by, and saw a man and a woman each negotiating a lawnmower — one going crossways, the other lengthways, angling around tiny headstones. That brings me to summer camp. The “what will we do” to fill the time between fence posts. Here’s what we did …ninja camp, $300 for a week of half-day (which I thought
why do we post??? Kathryn Jezer-Morton knows (opens the original)
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Children born in 2015 will one day look back and wonder why each of their first 12 months were marked with cardboard “1 month,” “2 months,” “6 months” prop photos (or, later, counted out in slices of pizza). We parents posted these staged photo ops to our Instagram grids—the flimsiest possible way to attempt to capture the hugeness of a new person being here in life with us. (I tried to do a second-a-day video for Scout’s first birthday, but it was more like a second or two every few weeks.) The
give us your raccoon and rabid beaver (opens the original)
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Our friends — let’s call them Captain and the Ranger — invited us to camp again on Racoon Island, accessed by their pontoon boat. Eight days of sweeping daddy long legses and wolf spiders out of the outhouse, eight days’ intensive shaping of children’s characters (7, 9, 9, and 11), as well as our own.The Captain brought a metal trash can this year — properly raccoon-proof. The Ranger brought paint pens for turning pebbles into gnomes. Noodles brought not only the rechargeable string lights from
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