I pulled up to the Starbucks drive-thru this afternoon. When my husband spent roughly an hour this morning digging my car out from under many, many centimeters of snow {that’s a thing, by the way, that happens when you move to Canada. You begin measuring snow in centimeters instead of inches and it seems to be the only kind of…
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Mental Tetris. Also Frogger.
It took until Day 3 of Ali Goes Back To Work Full Time for us to have our first meltdown. Now, I’m not at liberty to disclose who had the meltdown, and not just because it may have been me, {Narrator: It wasn’t} but since my prediction was that this would happen on Day 2, maybe this can be considered…
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In 1997, I Planted A Tree
In 1997, during my gap year in Israel before it was called a gap year, I planted a tree in Israel. We will circle back to this, I promise. When I decided to start seriously looking for a job a few months ago, I really hoped for two things — I wanted to avoid a giant commute and I…
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Should Be Eight
Recently, Isabella came home distraught. Her friend, it seemed, as eighth grade friends often do, exclaimed “OMG I’m so upset I’m going to die!” My sweet and sensitive soul of girl, though, still knee-deep in wading the waters of missing her cousin terribly, of feeling an India-shaped hole in her heart, takes exception to the phrase “I’m going to die”…
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So You Can’t Even Tell
My life is a literal constant carousel of things my children want me to watch. “Just look at these meme,” the littlest one says. “Read this chart — those are my math grades. And this one. It shows how the Packers are going to make the playoffs,” the middlest one says. “Go watch the video I sent you on snapchat…
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