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Do you feel like you have a village? People to rely on when you're in a bind, friends to turn to when you think you can't handle one. more. nursing session, one more set of misplaced keys, one more disagreement with your spouse, one more toddler tantrum? I recently received this text …

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My kids and I were treading in rich green water, deep enough that none of us could touch—life vests and pool noodles keeping us afloat. I looked at my three kids and had a flash of the future cross my mind. Only by then, none of them will really need those floaties anymore. This parenting …

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I sat in a small office, books and loose paper stacked all around me, an old computer humming away behind me. I stared. I stared at a page full of questions about current events. My mind was blank. Not because I was nervous about this aspect of my job interview. (Well, maybe a little bit …

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The verdict is still out on this whole "summer" thing. I LOVE it in most ways—the weather, the slower mornings, the beach trips, the neighborhood barbecues, and above all else, the homework-free afternoons—but I also miss the predictability of the school year and the hours of relative quiet when our …

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They're wild when they get out of school. Are yours wild too? One is bouncing, literally bouncing up and down, as we walk home. The other is grumpy-happy, this weird combo of happy to be out of school and free of the pressure to be polite and cool and smart and collected, but also …

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