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The Making of a Third Place, Pt. I: First It Was Exciting

Some backstory on our deli + market adventure
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Tell me how great your kids/spouse/dog/friends are
A quick word on bragging
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I can only tell you what's happened so far
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Favorite Things
(Don't tell the other Things)
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Grandmas don't wear holey jeans
On turning forty-nine, resisting some tropes, and leaning in to others
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Making the cut
(If I had a dollar for every time I've written about habits and routines...yet here I go again.)
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Mom guilt, Robin Hood, and reading magazines like a grandma
Part III of a discussion with Aimee Guest on Creativity and Motherhood
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Making plans, praying prayers, and throwing your life up in the air
Or, "I am out with lanterns looking for myself," as Dickinson humorously noted
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Creativity and Motherhood
A discussion on time, justification, and rejecting "the images the world would put on us", with Aimee Guest
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Stopping by the window
And a change in perspective that comes at the mirror of true words
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