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A Plan to Unapologetically Romanticize Fall for All It’s Worth (opens the original)
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I make a list at the beginning of each new season, a collection of activities to punctuate the coming months. This started sometime after I read about Japan’s 72 microseasons, including “bush warblers start singing in the mountains.”I’m prone to the occasional wave of panic that life, and the childhoods that I’m now responsible for, are slipping by unceremoniously. Especially now in the age of constant distraction and AI, reality seems to be accelerating to the point of becoming a nebulous strea
The Inconvenient, Thankless Weekend Tradition That I Keep Insisting on (opens the original)
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I’m leaning over the seat of a weathered picnic table, scrubbing mustard and baked bean residue off blue tin plates. My 6-year-old has designated herself the rinser. As she works, water splashes on our feet from a pair of gallon-sized orange and yellow plastic tubs. I’ve made two trips to a faucet located a couple of campsites over to fill them. My 3-year-old runs over and asks to be “the sponger.”After we finish, I pour out the dirty water in some bushes. A pile of forks that were hiding in the
I Wanted to Be a Copenhagen Mom (opens the original)
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I gaped at a Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy lookalike whizzing by on a bike, pedaling hands-free while eating a bowl of muesli with a spoon. It was 8 a.m. in Copenhagen. A few weeks earlier in San Diego, my husband and I had bought a pair of e-bikes. He’d ride the bigger cargo bike with our two children on the back, and I’d ride alongside them on the commuter bike. At 5-foot-2, my feet barely touch the ground on the average bicycle, and I’m generally cautious when it comes to operating vehicles.When w
Hosting a Low-Effort Block Party Might Change Everything (opens the original)
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Four years ago, everyone on our street was a stranger. Now my 6-year-old knows where to knock for a limitless supply of fizzy water or Taylor Swift records.Before we bought our first house, my husband and I lived in a three-unit apartment building for years without ever having a conversation with the upstairs neighbors. But when we found ourselves as new parents in a new city where we didn’t know anyone, we were motivated to take a risk.I don’t remember what solidified the idea for a block party
The Dingy Apartment That Held a Life I'll Never Get Back (opens the original)
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I complained about living in a dark apartment behind a garage, but I still find myself talking about it a lot.In my mind, my life with my husband is divided into two eras: the five years we lived in that semi-subterranean apartment on tiny Potomac Street and the time after. The before times began with us refreshing Craigslist every few hours and meeting at apartment showings in the few neighborhoods that linked my commute north to a magazine office inside a Jackson Square high-rise and his commu
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