Monthly Archives: January 2014

The Mother I Wanted

Posted on January 14, 2014 by whoopsiepiggle

On a snowy winter’s morning twenty years ago and told me the plain truth, “What you have just done has happened billions upon billions of times in human history and yet I know that right now you feel like the … Continue reading →

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Traditions Refashioned

Posted on January 2, 2014 by whoopsiepiggle

When the big boys were little, my biggest writing project of the year was my holiday letter. Every December, beginning in 1994 just before Claude’s first birthday, I wrote a two-page letter of family updates and book recommendations mixed with … Continue reading →

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Monthly Archives: January 2014

The Mother I Wanted

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Traditions Refashioned

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