The Tuesday Edition
A Tuesday letter from San Francisco on travel, culture and life with a baby in tow.
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Edit #25: The shift everyone promised (opens the original)
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Last week I left my husband and daughter at home to go on a half-week work trip while my daughter was sick. It was probably the hardest it's ever been to leave her. Did I know she was safe? Yes. Would my husband have let me know if I needed to come home? Of course. But she's tiny and so strong and also so delicate, and it broke my heart a little to leave her.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bdwj!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/ht
In the summer the whole country goes antiquing (opens the original)
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We’re in France and it’s August, which means the whole country is heading on vacation and the summer antique town takeovers are in full swing. Since we’re staying in central France, there’s almost always a large brocante within an hour’s drive every weekend. After a few years of trial and error I can confidently say that the end of August into early September is the best time for these full-town takeovers, but they take place year-round and can be found on a website called Brocabrac, organized b
Edit #23: Lists on the fridge (opens the original)
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After attempting and usually failing to brush the baby’s teeth, I gave up and my husband turned to the internet (brave) and discovered the Brushy Brush song. We accepted four minutes of screens a day as a trade-off for baby cavities and now get to hear Elmo sing with his friend Ms. Rachel and a bunch of puppets about brushing your teeth, every day and every night. Two weeks in and the baby runs to brush her teeth giggling at the opportunity, which is a true 180 from our previous attempts.It was
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