December 11, 2007
I was walking around downtown Oakland, CA today, trying to get some blood flowing out of my ass and back into my brain after the cross-country flight, and I saw a mom and son have an argument.
He sneaked a cookie out of her bag and shoved it in his mouth. She turned around, saw him with the evidence, and whapped him one, sending him flying down the three concrete steps (he landed on his feet), and then screamed at him: godDAMNIT I told you not to eat any more of those FUCKING cookies! And on and on.
I’d guess he was 3. Four, maybe? He didn’t act surprised, so I’m guessing this is the usual MO. She had a tiny baby strapped to her in a Bjorn.
What I wanted to do was grab him and bolt. Here’s what I did instead: nothing. I was worried that if I said something to her it would make it worse for him. But it’s haunting me.
Crap. What would you have done in real life, or if you were Supermom?
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December 7, 2007
Birthdays aren’t as much fun at 32 as they were at 12, but I still like ‘em.
So here’s the grateful list for the day:
- For the requisite disgusting office birthday cake that represents how lucky I am to get paid to do this work with these people;
- For that awesome kid whose latest trick is to jump overandoverandoverandover on his brand new mini trampoline (courtesy of Grandma) while shouting “bum, bum, bum!”
- For the tickets I have in my hot little hands to see Richie Havens live tonight;
- For the stack of potatoes and bottle of vodka just begging to be turned into latkes and cocktails for a couple of friends tomorrow night;
- For my wife who met me when I was 24-year-old cute but insists I’m much cuter now;
- For being where I had barely hoped to be at 32.
Yes!
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November 28, 2007
Also known as hog heaven. I’ve never seen such filthy - or such giggly - babies.
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November 26, 2007
On a 40-seater plane on the runway in Cincinnati, Saturday night after Thanksgiving, with airport and plane sufficiently mobbed and overheated, Roo in my lap flirting with everyone around us between short lapses into sobbing, I-don’t-want-to-sit-still-anymore toddler tantrums, the flight attendant turns to the teenage boy across the aisle from us and says:
Well, that’s certainly a good argument to use birth control, isn’t it?
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November 25, 2007
Well-travelled
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This little guy is a replica of a hippo that was displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2002. In the fall of 2007 he showed up in the mud at low tide in the tidal creek by my cousins’ house about an hour from Savannah, Georgia.
If he could talk, I feel like he would have an amazing story to tell.
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November 22, 2007
The view at 6:30 this morning from my cousin’s house.
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