Mihow

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  • We're Back. Sort Of.

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    Time Warner cable is out AGAIN. It’s been out since we returned home, no telling how long it was out before that. I’m wondering if this is a Brooklynwide outage or if we’re just really that unlucky. Either way, I am hijacking a neighbor’s wireless and it’s spotty. I’m here, the trip went well, and…

  • iTrips and iScream.

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    We’re leaving for Boston this evening. I want to leave at night—at a time Em is normally sleeping—so he doesn’t realize he’s uncomfortable. I really don’t like driving at night. But I dislike traffic even more. And I loathe driving in traffic with Em in the car. One time, it took us over two hours…

  • June 24, 2008. 7:13 PM

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    My kid walked.

  • Tuesdays With Murray (Chapter 50)

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    I simply couldn’t resist. This video was taken yesterday. I hope it cheers someone up out there! They really, really like playing together. This went on for a while yesterday and I just stood there, smiling. Also, sorry about yesterday’s cryptic and grumpy post. I was having a “throw your hands up” sort of day.…

  • A Break.

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    I think I’m going to take a week or two off from writing (or trying to write) on here. I have roughly 4 half-written posts, one of which I accidentally pushed live last week for at least an hour, maybe longer. There’s just too much going on right now, too much uncertainty and change. I…

  • Brooklyn Parents and Friends:

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    I know this is a long shot, but if anyone out there wants to get together to watch the game tomorrow, hit me up with an email. I know this is totally last minute. Nevertheless, TJ and I are looking to get a group together to watch the Spain Vs. Italy game. It’d be great…

  • Humbled Yet Proud.

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    I woke up this morning and discovered Toby couldn’t move. His back had given out. He spent the better half of the morning hunched over the table, pale as a corpse, groaning into his bowl of uneaten cereal. He spent the hour before that fighting nausea while perched over a toilet bowl. I had to…

  • Finding Comfort

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    It’s been a while. I have no excuse. The sounds you hear are of Em in the background playing with Tupperware, his new favorite toy. (This is video for a series called Stories For My Son.) Below is a video showing how Em uses the orange pillow, which is precisely how he acted with the…

  • Where Should We Eat?

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    We have reservations at Gramercy Tavern tomorrow for 7 PM. But we just found out that we can get in to Le Bernardin tomorrow at 8 PM. (Toby knows people and those people pulled some strings for us.) So, if you’re reading this and you’ve been to either, or you know anything about either restaurant,…

  • Tuesdays With Murray (Chapter 49)

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    Toby and I hired a maid. We made the appointment two weeks ago. She was to begin Monday. On Saturday night I began to freak out about the logistics. (How would she get in the house? Were we supposed to leave? Did she need to use our supplies? If we left the house, how would…