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Torn

by eliz on January 25, 2010

This isn’t a rant or a pity mope but an honest-to-God what the hell would you do? post. OK, it’s a little rantacular.
There are brilliant multitaskers and fantastic time managers, and I’m neither. Therefore, the particular demands I’m under now are either conditioning for a yet more-difficult trial to come or I’m being fucked with. [...]

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The Post Where I Defend My Child-Care Choices*

by eliz on September 11, 2009

*Because we all write a post like this eventually. Here’s mine:
When I moved to South Carolina, I had neither a job nor a child. I thought we timed the move impeccably – we expected to travel within two months of our October move. October 2005 is when the wait for families approved by China went [...]

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I realize that’s a post title straight out of Penelope Trunk’s playbook – a provocative pull-disparate-things-out-of-your-ass-and-tie-together-tenuously  – but every time I watch “Flipping Out” I find something new to admire about the way Jeff Lewis organizes his life and business. Not because he’s on TV but because for all his neuroses, he’s in reality uncommonly [...]

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