Archive | July, 2010

Effortless Perfection.. or the One Tiny Thing

I was talking to a young woman today and heard something I’ve been hearing a lot from those who are a generation younger than me. “Yes, but I don’t like…” This was in direct reference to a conversation we were having about her job prospects and my advice to her in how to expand her [...]

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Being on Vaction in Your City

My mom is visiting us as we await the birth of our baby and she is the first visitor we have had in a year. The last one was stopping through on her way back from Nepal with a boyfriend and sister. It was one night and two days — in the midst of a [...]

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A Short History of Two across Four Houses in Five Years and now: Nanny Makes Three

We’ve lived in the Middle East for five years and not really ever cleaned our own house. Now that we have our first live-in nanny/domestic, it doesn’t seem like we ever will. First there was no need to clean much when I was single because I only used two of the five rooms in my [...]

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