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does anyone know of any intellectual, academic, novelist, or anyone else who has published a book who has included in their acknowledgments section (or anywhere else in writing) thanks to a nanny (or anyone else) for taking care of their children while they wrote the book?

i want to have more children but the prospect of another pregnancy and newborn to nurse would, i think, feel less daunting if i had friends who weren't afraid to embrace me warmly, stroke my back, touch my hands and face

three-year-old made up a song he said was called "love is personal" and the words were: love is here, love is here, love is near, love is everywhere, love is nowhere, love is anywhere, love is in the window of the maze, a laze, a haze (here it trailed off into sing-song babble)

nuthatch chatters. it chatters as it flies.

is there such a thing as high class prostitutes who don't own cell phones specifically so they have a more concentrated attention span for their clients

would you like some Things

you can tell i'm a forty-year-old woman because i'm doing things like "getting into monoprinting"

mixed feelings when reviews for oil pastels and colored pencils describe them as "creamy" or "buttery" when using them, because it's appealing but kinda makes me want to eat oil pastels and colored pencils

think i may have just seen odin fented out outside a bank of america

rewatched lynch's elephant man and it's a good film, but imagine a film that is less about ill treatment and exploitation and more about merrick as a man saving wages, developing craftsmanship with his particular challenges, with bright colorful scenes of picking wildflowers

did the infant christ bite the breasts of his mother? did remus and romulus bite the teats of the wolf?

toddler woke a little after dawn with a small soft shout, and sat up and told me about his dreams: in his dream we were walking up a hill, and there was a zoo, and the zoo was full of crabs, and the crabs were dead, and in his other dream, he had long foots

sometimes my baby rolls around in his sleep and wakes himself up in the middle of the night with it, then sits up with a groggy wobble and starts laughing and chattering excitedly because it's good to be awake, where does an excessively happy baby fit in baby sleep discourse