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In honor of the season, a holiday shopping post. I can’t think of a time my sister and I have disagreed on anything parenting-related. Not to one another’s faces, anyway. But this American Girl thing is tough. It started with Hanukkah. Jenny wanted to know what she could buy the girls. Well, I told her, [...]

My husband discovered WalMart this year, which means that now, post-Christmas, there’s a lot of cheap plastic in the house (all given with great love; he was excited to shower the girls with gifts) but Santa brought a few notable items, as well. Annabelle received ZhuZhu pets (again, procured by Ray, who was smart enough to spot [...]

You know those friends — friends you can go years without seeing, but when you do see them, it’s like no time has passed? That’s my friend Heather. Love her. Loveherloveherloveher. We met as undergrads and somehow 20-plus years passed and here we are. After college she went to law school and met a cute boy and and [...]

I am home. I mean it. And that’s saying something, considering I spent the last 2 and a half days in New York City, the place I always assumed I’d call home, from the time I saw Sesame Street — followed by a life-long barrage of manufactured scenes set in a city far more glamorous [...]