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Writer Showcase: Shannon Sanders' Best Work
A summer interview series, volume 11.
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How to Shop At Aldi, For the Uninitiated
With bonus tips for sales-spotting and child-wrangling
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Good morning from the back porch
Trying something different.
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If You Give a Toddler a Book About a Cookie
You already know he's going to want 400 unrelated things to go with it.
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This Christmas, I'm Not Doing Stuff (Guest Post by Lucy Huber)
A guest post and a big announcement.
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Reasons I Would Like to Give When Asked Why My Eighteen-Month-Old Isn't Talking Yet
Quippy comebacks for a question I'm sure everyone is thinking (not that I'm overthinking this at all).
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Five Buckets of Nerdy Nostalgia (and Eighteen Rolls of Toilet Paper)
Children, books, gowns, catastrophes, and so on.
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"Help! I Asked For Parenting Advice Online and I Now Regret Everything!"
What the comments section of every parenting Facebook group looks like, more or less. Maybe a tiny bit of hyperbole. But only a tiny bit.
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If I Only Had (More Than) a Brain
These are the days of miracles and wonder, of doing everything and nothing.
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Ten Baby Activity Ideas, Developed By an Actual Baby
Look, it's called a TOY-let for a reason, MOTHER.
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When Good Friday Doesn't Go My Way
Thwarted plans, acts of service, and liturgy of the ordinary.
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Why Don't People Talk About Parenthood The Way I Want Them To?
On internet debates, "toxic" positivity, and the joy of reading a picture book
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