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Entries from June 2004

Accolades for dads

June 21st, 2004 · 1 Comment

I wrote a piece for Ted on Father’s Day. Other bloggers celebrated the dads in their lives too. Here are a few excerpts from my favorite Father’s Day posts… Heather Armstrong (dooce) praised her husband The best part of my day is when Jon carries Leta back to the changing table after her bath, and […]

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Tags: family

Each in their own distinctive way

June 20th, 2004 · Comments Off on Each in their own distinctive way

A while ago – weeks? months? – on a lark, I went crusing through the OSCON speaker listings, looking to see who else will be at the conference with my husband. Near Ted’s entry I saw this description which ended: r0ml is married to one of the smartest, most energetic, most beautiful women in the […]

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My Degas daughter

June 20th, 2004 · 3 Comments

On Wednesday, Abigail’s class did a little performance for the parents (and then the girls wanted the parents to perform for them too!). Watching the five and six year olds pirouette in their pastel tutus reminded me of Degas paintings. for artistic – and privacy – reasons I blurred the image a bit with PhotoShop.

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To the father of my children

June 20th, 2004 · 6 Comments

When you and I walked together along a stretch of Cape Cod beach years ago, the ocean air tossing our hair, on that October Saturday, my love for you began. Not that I hadn’t already started to fall for you. By then you were my best male friend. After six months of conversations, including a […]

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Tags: marriage

Shower and show up

June 20th, 2004 · 2 Comments

Eugene Volokh and other bloggers – including MD – have been discussing this week what it means to be sexy. Volokh wrote: Women think a lot — much more than men — about how they can become more attractive, and are willing to do a lot to try to become more attractive. Don’t know what […]

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Tags: marriage