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I’ve spent half of the past week sitting on the couch with a cold-y, not-at-school three-year-old, attempting to work while holding my neck cocked to the right at a 45-degree angle because she wants to hold a hank of my hair and smell it while she watches Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood<\/em>. We’ve all three got whatever’s been going around, the cough and constant need for Kleenex and now, naturally, a sore neck. It could always be worse, I remind myself; it could be the stomach flu. My hair could be shorter. I could, yet again, have that one Daniel Tiger song<\/a> stuck in my head.<\/p>\n

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After somehow forgetting about it for\u00a0a couple of months, I made a fresh batch of Granola No. 5<\/a> last night. This morning, June announced with grave indignation\u00a0that she wished I had made oatmeal<\/a> instead. You win some.<\/p>\n

On the upside, she’s back in school today, and Brandon just texted to say that he won the latest round in the game of Whack-a-Mole that is our soon-to-be\u00a0new bar,\u00a0Dino’s Tomato Pie<\/a>. And\u00a0I motored down to Elm Coffee Roasters<\/a> to have a very, very good coffee and work for a couple of hours, and while I sat there, they played\u00a0Astral Weeks<\/a><\/em>, and when I sang\/croaked along, no one even complained.<\/p>\n

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Small victories! My friend, she of the small, graceful hand pictured immediately below, she became a mother this week! \u00a0For most of my life, I wasn’t much moved by baby announcements. I wasn’t a baby person, and I didn’t put a lot of thought to\u00a0parenthood, the metamorphosis of it, the gravity of it, the wild\u00a0miraculous mess of it, until I decided to attempt it. Now a baby announcement\u00a0arrives and I feel\u00a0everything<\/em>.\u00a0My advice to new parents: never run out of oatmeal.<\/p>\n

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I finished the second season of\u00a0Transparent<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>in one great gulp last weekend, and I miss it. I haven’t loved a show that much in a long time. Also, Hari Nef<\/a>, who appears in this latest season,\u00a0is a sensational and very foxy\u00a0human. And this Fresh Air interview with Jeffrey Tambor<\/a> is wonderful.<\/p>\n

Likewise,\u00a0the TED Radio Hour show called “Quiet.”<\/a><\/p>\n

And Lena Dunham’s Women of the Hour<\/a> podcast, especially the episode called “Work.”<\/a><\/p>\n

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From the New Yorker<\/em>, a story<\/a> I keep thinking about a solid month after reading it.<\/p>\n

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I spent a Saturday in early December at Hedgebrook<\/a> for their “winter salon,”\u00a0a day of small-group workshops in their cottages in the woods. On a whim, I signed up for\u00a0poetry workshop with Priscilla Long<\/a>, though I hadn’t written poetry\u00a0in more than a decade and wasn’t sure I even wanted to. And it was great. I came home determined to follow through on Priscilla’s\u00a0suggestion that we each keep\u00a0a notebook of our favorite poems, each one written out by hand, as touchstone of sorts, a way of gathering words, sounds, and feeling to feed our\u00a0own work. A couple of weeks later, I started my notebook, and I’ve been slowly\u00a0adding to it. First I wrote down\u00a0Donald Hall’s “Letter in Autumn.”<\/a>\u00a0Then Mary Oliver’s\u00a0“Humpbacks.”<\/a>\u00a0This afternoon, I think I’ll add Frank O’Hara’s “Steps,”<\/a>\u00a0because why not.<\/p>\n

Happy weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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