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Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow

This summer I cut off all my hair.  It’s a long story, which began in the summer of 2019 when my aunt, who was battling cancer, told my daughters and me about wigs. We were together on our family’s...

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Back to All That

In 1967, the author Joan Didion published an essay called “Goodbye to All That,” in which she attempted to unravel the factors that led from her falling in love with New York City to “the moment it...

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The Wedding of My Decade

At the end of July, I attended a friend’s wedding in Indianapolis. Sounds simple, right?  Friends, if anything was ever simple, these days nothing is simple. I was thrilled back in September 2021, when...

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The November of Middle Age

“I think that November might be the most beautiful month,” said my daughter as we drove through the barren brown landscape. A few scraggly leaves clung resolutely to the skeletal tree branches....

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Holiday Film Review: Disenchanted

Over the Thanksgiving holiday, our entire family sat down to watch the new Disney film, Disenchanted. In a rare occurrence, all our children were excited to view the long-awaited sequel to 2007’s...

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Life With a Saint

I’ve begun to suspect that I may have married a saint. To be clear, it didn’t take me 20 years of marriage to figure out that my husband, Erick, is a uniquely kind, generous, and principled human...

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A Story of Marriage in Three Beds

“You spend 1/3 of your life in bed,” my husband, Erick, tells me. Our beds are where we sleep, of course, and we need sleep: Sleep is when our bodies repair and recharge. Bed also tends to be where we...

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Things We Don’t Talk About: Being the Anti-Hero

I have an uneasy relationship in my head with singer/songwriter/cultural icon Taylor Swift. On the one hand, I appreciate her catchy tunes and sharply intelligent lyrics. After watching the 2020...

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Things We Don’t Talk About: Work, Family, and Mortality

I recently finished reading Kristin Lavransdatter, an 1,100-page, three-volume novel written in 1920 by Norwegian author Sigrid Undset. It won the Nobel Prize in Literature for its epic depiction of...

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Why You Should Watch “Barbie”

“This movie is going to change my life,” my 15-year-old daughter stated confidently. I looked over to where she sat in the passenger seat, swathed in an oversized pink sweatshirt. I was taking her to...

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