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I’m Here


Dear Evan on Your First Day of 8th Grade, You just disappeared around the corner en route to the bus, and I’m swiping through 14 pictures of your back. After the obligatory first-day photo featuring a stilted smile (no, approval is not required before posting, as first-day-of-anything pics fall under the Mother Override Exemption), and suddenly lanky teenage arms dangling…

On Chocolate Mousse and Chapter Two


Did you know that Monday was National Chocolate Mousse Day? Neither did I, until the woman ahead of me in the grocery checkout line explained that’s why she was buying her kids the towering brown mass of mousse with smaller swirly dollops blooming from the top. “I promised my kids I’d bring home chocolate mousse for dessert,” she told the…