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Year two with twins is the year of guerilla warfare, the year in which they form a tiny two-man militia bent on breeding destruction and disorder. My one-and-a-half year-old boys are climbers and their little army is forever advancing toward higher ground. ...
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Christmas morning 2010, the Corvette we found for $25 on Craigslist. I turned to see my two and four year old children driving their little yellow Corvette through our small, cramped living room. I was standing in the doorway between rooms interviewing a...
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She told him, “When I was in college I read a folktale about a father pursuing a son who’d run far away, from one world to the next. The father called to him, ‘Please come back!’ But his son looked across the great gulf between them and shouted...
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I sat in the living room last week rocking my poor, sick, sleeping boy and watched while his twin brother explored a small wooden chair. He walked diligently to the book basket, chose a board book, then toddled quickly over to the chair. Placing the...
