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Solo Mother

June 16th, 2008

exhaustion, insomnia, and saving the world

Quite a title, eh? And it’s only Monday.
There’s a bug going around that seems to be felling whole families, involving messy expulsions and exhausted bodies. I do hope I’m not coming down with it, but I didn’t feel well today. It’s weird, the panic that impending sickness gives me, a holdover from the bad old […]

By christina -- 4 comments

April 9th, 2007

Insomnia

Ever since I started this job, i’ve had insomnia.  it started in the hotel the night before my first business development meeting in New York. I woke up at around two in the morning and realized I’d never fallen into a deep sleep. I never did, that night. I floated somewhere between sleeping and waking […]

By christina -- 7 comments

March 17th, 2007

wasn’t technology supposed to make our lives simpler?

I’m arguing with my computer most days, it seems, and the technology on my phone has outstripped me. I wouldn’t know how to fix my car if I had one, and I’ve just about given up on understanding anything that requires any sort of electrical power source. I give up.
When I was a kid, my […]

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November 24th, 2006

One mother’s hilarious way to deal with the Terrible Two’s

Fannfare is one of my all-time favorite momblogs. She’s acid funny, deadly honest and did I mention, laugh out loud?
We’ve all been there. We’ve all waited with dread, lest the nightly news lead story is, “Way Pissed Off Toddler Carried Screaming Over Father’s Shoulder, Film at 11″… with humiliating closeups of spit, redface, pounding fists and the occasional chewing […]

By christina -- 1 comment