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I wrote a book called Company; maybe you’d like to read it?

Maryland, USA

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Planning for paperback events! I’ll definitely do something in the DC area plus would love to visit another city or two this fall. If you would come hear me talk about stories and let me sign your book, where do you live? (And do you have a favorite local store?) 🍃🍂🍁

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3yo tested positive. I know it’s popular to act bewildered and claim to have been nowhere, but in fact we have had some exposure: the amount required to keep our jobs, plus a masked, outdoor family Christmas gathering.

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PSA: If Terry makes $90k, Taylor makes $60k, and childcare costs $50k, it is NOT “Childcare was going to eat up most of Taylor’s salary anyway,” it IS “Childcare eats up 1/3 of our household income, ugh this sucks” Then proceed from there

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@realgirl_fieri Trying to imagine looking into the eyes of someone I wasn’t married to yet and having the “My mom has always cooked for me every day but now that we’re together YOU must do it, you simply must, or I will starve” conversation

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But I’m really, truly sorry they want to see your vax card to let you into Bar Louie or whatever the fuck.

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There’s a thread where ppl are sharing how their male partners support their writing and the responses range from like “My bf sometimes lets me tell him how my work is going” to “My husb took a second job so I could spend 6 months writing a 3k-word essay.” It’s really something

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Unless I’m mistaken, caring for little kids while sick is an element of parenting that is utterly hack-proof, meaning there is no hack that makes it any easier, no lesson you can learn that makes it go better the next time. So grim

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We annoyed everyone in our own families with our carefulness. People told us we were being ridiculous, questioned and second-guessed our protocols. As omicron started popping up everywhere, we had to fight uphill against the attitude that the kids would definitely get infected.

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We are also, again, as for ALL OF 2020, stranded with zero childcare help, this time with 3x the children. There is no stretch of time longer than 4 hours to sleep in. No one over age 3 is ever rested enough to do any form of self care. School is a no-go for now.

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3 years

I gave birth to two babies today 🍾😓

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2 years

We DID spend 2 years doing absolutely everything feasible to keep him and his baby brothers safe. Traveled nowhere. No indoor gatherings of any sort. Only masked interactions with our own parents.

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The likeliest vector was either a vaccinated relative (whom we didn’t hug or come within 6 feet of outdoors) or the vaccinated sitter (who comes 3 days/week and makes it possible for us to keep our jobs). My anger has no place to settle.

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I didn’t want my kids to catch it. We don’t know how it will affect their development, or how mild this case will be. Two are babies (luckily getting antibodies through breast milk). So I rejected the fatalism that started overtaking everybody.

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Nothing on earth could have prepared me for the reality of weekends spent caring for 3 small children. Not the decade of babysitting I did, not watching my friends who had kids first. Nothing except maybe an automated face-punching machine

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We just wanted to get them safely to the point of kiddy vaccines. We were willing to pause our lives completely until then. Now I’m feeling guilty for the small risks, listed above, that we did take.

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The guidance is confusing and, we all agree, bullshit. 3yo is fine so far, aside from a runny nose. I am dreading any change to the household symptom profile. The adults here are already fatigued to an unsafe degree.

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How many parts of society run on the apparent assumption that every child has a stay-at-home parent, even in communities where that isn’t even close to being true

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What is one parenting thing that caught you completely by surprise? I was prepared for sleeplessness, tantrums, picky eating. But I genuinely didn’t believe until I saw it with my own two eyes just how hard it is to find childcare that fully covers your working hours.

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The numbers might be obfuscating my point for some, so for the record this also applies if Terry and Taylor each make $75k and childcare costs $50k. Money is fungible and the kids are a shared responsibility, so it’s not somehow only costing one person money.

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@clhubes Omg this is almost exactly like when I called my husband asking him to bring home “vino” and followed it up with this text: “🍷🍷🍷🍷” and he brought home…this

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@clhubes Cheers to you for making your 4 Loko person your forever person, not everyone is so skilled 😭😭😭

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Tell me about how you finished your novel manuscript without ever doing a residency or going on a retreat or taking a sabbatical or ever having more than 3 consecutive hours of free time, because I really need to hear about that please

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I was so excited to have children and I love mine to pieces, but can I tell you what I never wonder? Why people my age and younger are not choosing to have kids. Absolutely 0% confusion there. And can’t tell whether everyone else is doing a bit when they act baffled about it.

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@clhubes My other favorite: “I’m gonna cultivate a love of good music and they’ll never ask me to play cartoon crap” (me 5 years ago) 4yo this morning in the car: “Play the Tigger song lots and lots and LOTS of times in a row and nothing else” (it’s 35 f*cking seconds long)

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I will save you some time: 1) She is currently 27 (and her husb is under 40); 2) They’ve been married less than 4 years; 3) They plan to have children but don’t yet Do with that info what you will as you assess the “case”

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The Case for Marrying an Older Man

A woman’s life is all work and little rest. An age gap relationship can help.

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2 years

Not to toot my own horn, but you really should see me walk 😌

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@ambernoelle My child had a wonderful birthday party last weekend that almost drowned me, and then yesterday when his teacher asked what special thing he did over the weekend he told her he found a moth in our house

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@clhubes I’ve been pretending to be a raptor for two hours, so…yeah

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Now imagine the wife’s day given that kids are mentioned but this guy has nothing to do with them for 22 hrs

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@sarahradz_ As is the case with almost everything, I suspect it’s having enough control over your schedule that you can decide whether or not to walk places that actually does the trick

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@realgirl_fieri “I notice that women face structural barriers that threaten their health and limit their options, but don’t worry I don’t see a problem with that”

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@ambernoelle I’m willing a bet $100 that there is a strong inverse correlation between how many carnations we got and how vividly we remember this practice

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GUESS WHAT

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@blgtylr While producing not a drop of milk himself.

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@sarahradz_ Have you tried just chilling out and not worrying about everything so much? (My husband’s annual suggestion)

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*deep breath* Today is the day! After years of writing and revising, many lovely workshops, a little bit of rewriting, and so much else, I finally get to send Company out into the world. I am so proud of this book and so excited to share it.

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MY BABIES GOT THEIR FIRST SHOTS. 😭😭😭 Have never felt such instant kinship as I did with the other little-kid parents in line, so ecstatically happy. Such palpable relief. Everyone in the group applauded for every kid. Such an amazing thing after 27 months of hell.

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@realgirl_fieri I try so hard to communicate this to my husband but it sounds like I’m just arbitrarily being like, “Can we please keep this one room tidy for 3 hours just for funsies?” When really it’s that I’m going to lose the will to do anything ever again if the room is destroyed instantly

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Hey Mama, hope you enjoyed your 2 to 5.5 hours of sleep! It’s Sunday, so all you have to do today are 49 of the usual 50 things plus those other 2,000 things you never have time for during the week plus those three massive, scary things you have looming. Have a restful day!

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@vanjchan He’s never even tried to publish???? So basically, “It bothers me that my cute friend with benefits is at all talented” wow the smallness of this ⚰️

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One of the 2yos pooped after falling asleep. My husband got in, changed his diaper without waking him OR the twin he shares a room with, and got out, sparing us all what would surely have been a messy 5-person 2:45 am wakeup, and I just want to know if I can re-marry him.

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@sewistwrites I try to stay very far away from those discussions because it’s all false economy but surely those guys also argue that in the many households where the wife is the higher earner, the reverse is true, right? In the interest of fairness?? Right????

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Weekdays too, but there’s something about how wholly it decimates your lifelong association between weekends and rest/free time

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@clhubes One of my friends once complisulted me in our early 20s by being like “I like to eat salads and work out, but I love how you stay skinny by just eating like one unhealthy thing per day and nothing else!” Mortified

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Writing can be so embarrassing. Yeah like…just kind of sitting here typing. This thing that no one asked for. 75,000 words of it, yep. Because…I like to? Mostly. Anyway, maybe it’ll be done in 3 years! Or who knows.

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@averagejoelle Totally, once both partners’ goals and contributions are being treated with respect and importance, then you can decide what to do from a place of equity!!

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@realgirl_fieri My fave is the mom, who gets one second of screen time and two bars about coconuts but who you just know is holding down so much of that establishment.

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(Both hyperbole but not by much)

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@clhubes I think that’s the problem exactly, that a lot of us are so overextended that we sometimes can’t do things we want or need to do to be happier. The same way I’d be happier if I woke up at 4 am every day to exercise but I just can’t

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I’m in this month’s Writer’s Digest. My dad found me at Barnes and Noble and made a display with my teeny tiny face in the middle of it 😭

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@ambernoelle Yep, people only seem to get this wrong when Taylor is a mom. When Taylor is a dad, they understand it instinctively

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I’m not saying marrying an older man isn’t great, but if you’re going to argue that one of the benefits is it protects you from losing ground to younger women as you age, you should like…wait long enough to make sure that’s actually true

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9 months

Thinking of having kids? If you do, be forewarned—occasionally sitting down will constitute “self-care”

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"They’re pushing past the mom guilt and leaning in — or sitting down, as it were."

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That a person who was able to write their book because someone else was paying their bills is probably not going to say so directly, so you should quickly learn to avoid comparing your productivity and timeline to others’

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alternatively, what’s a hard to swallow pill for writers/authors, in your experience? either about the process or the industry

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@ambernoelle This is the extension of how no one ever thinks they were part of the in-group in high school

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@SomersErin But how did you manage this, bc my toddlers start yelling PLEASE COME HERE, SANNA if “Mama” doesn’t work immediately

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@aubreyhirsch “Thanks to my understanding partner, I’ll still get to have the daily alone time my mental health requires” — abandoned when we went from 👦🏽 -> 👦🏽👶🏽👶🏽

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@realgirl_fieri I don’t think I’m one of those moms, but I do often feel like people overestimate how much space is leftover outside of motherhood. Like they’ll say “So what else is new with you?” after I describe the busiest week of my life spent trying to balance job and kids

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I did not expect this thread to resonate with so many people 😳 but I’m so grateful for the kind words and feel less lonely now. As an update, I have some unpleasant flulike symptoms that make parenting hard(er), but the rest of the house, for now, is fine. ❤️

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I have no idea why I started getting Quora emails, but people are on the whole so relentlessly horrible to struggling parents that the gentleness of this response made me tear up

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A gal and her galley (photo credit: @davidchoy ). COMPANY is infinitely preorderable!

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My brother once asked me to name something (aside from $) I wish I never had to worry about again and I spat out the word “weight” so fast his head spun. He was surprised bc I never talk to him about that but it would truly free up 50% of my emotional energy

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I cannot even begin to convey as a millennial woman how much trying to lose weight has eaten up my life & time. it’s truly devastating.

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@clhubes Why don’t you just try having no preferences at all about the place where you make your home

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@clhubes That time couldn’t be more terrible if they tried, wonder how many of the children in question will be front and center on the zoom screens working their magic

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@clhubes Sick parents/well kids is really the worst of the four scenarios

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@ambernoelle Ok but in fairness I think my parents went through the same thing with respect to the way Mork from Ork was deeply entrenched in my heart as Mrs. Doubtfire/Genie

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@DaxAeterna @hombrewrecker Every single time I show off a new shawl people ask why don’t I sell shawls, but then I’d be out many dollars and so much joy

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Introverts with kids under 5. How do you have friends???? It is such a lonely time BUT your kids consume every iota of your social energy BUT you need to talk about what you’re going through BUT people on social media will drown you with bad-faith judgments. How do you/we do it??

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@RVoronaCote “I, unlike everyone around me, contain multitudes. So why don’t any of these frumps want to be my friend?”

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@CartoonsHateHer The current parenting culture is literally exactly the one you would design if you wanted to directly discourage people from becoming parents, so all the hand wringing about the birth rate cracks me up

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@clhubes My husband and I talk every single week about how badly it would have gone if we’d met even 2.5 years earlier, it’s soooo case-by-case

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@realgirl_fieri Because of that beautiful fiction that says good mothers love their children in a way where caring for them isn’t work and they really don’t *need* breaks from it, which would be such wonderful news for everyone if it were true

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@roywoodjr I’ve seen this one before. If you start helping even lightly, there’s a 90% chance the other dad puts his phone away and instantly becomes coach of the year. Win/win

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@clhubes Yes the suggestion that none of the women in the first photo will ever be wed or give birth is so asinine when actually they will all probably spend 5 straight summers attending two of their friends’ weddings each month

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@lucysky It’s meant as a common trad virtue signal, but it also tells us that least one of the children he’s fantasizing about ignoring all day is probably very young

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@realgirl_fieri Wonderwall is a stop-everything song in our house

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Last thing. If you are planning to give birth, I cannot stress enough how important it is that your partner’s love is not staked to your youthful hotness

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@BonsoirAnna I think if a family feels that a mother should not leave her child in the care of a third party, that is a completely different discussion than the salary one

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Novel writing is wild. You have nothing to show for it for literally years. Like in what other area of life would this be remotely tolerable 😭

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@dingle_kerry Ok wait actually this is a hack!

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I was explaining to 4yo why—for the third Monday in a row—there is yet again no school today, and he gave me a look that clearly said “Hey if school doesn’t exist anymore, you know you can just tell me”

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@clhubes Having another baby five minutes after my previous baby rather than wising up and stopping between babies (they’re twins)

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I don’t know how many adults are needed to maintain a household including 2 FT jobs and 3 kids under age 5 in such a way that there is always at least one available adult with enough energy, but I do know the number is greater than two

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This feels like the perfect time to mention that I found my way to both my agent and editor through my debut short story publication, for which I did not get paid! Which is to say, I think you should publish wherever you want to.

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@JayElHarris You must have missed that she’s a petite blonde, aka universally and unreservedly desired

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The first little bit of pub day magic: THE ⁦ @levarburton ⁩ is reading my story “Dragonflies” on today’s episode of his podcast!!!! I mean—what?? 🤯 After my parents, Reading Rainbow was my first intro to the wonder of books. I’m ecstatic.

"Dragonflies" by Shannon Sanders

Listen to this episode from LeVar Burton Reads on Spotify. Knick-knacks are tagged, life choices are interrogated, and secrets are revealed after the family matriarch passes away. This story appears...

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@clhubes There are a few things that are about as hard as I expected, many things that are harder than I would guessed, and then this one that is like 25x even what I anticipated

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Company made @PublishersWkly ’s Best of 2023 list!

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Company got a starred review from @PublishersWkly !! They called the book “masterly” and “a winner,” and I try not to worry about reviews but 🌟🤩⭐️🤩🌟

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Sanders excels in this masterly debut collection about a Black extended family and their triumphs, problems, and secrets. In “Th...

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Company won its category at the @latimesfob !

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And now we have @RobertsEmma and @Karahpriess of @belletristbooks here to present The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction #bookprizes #bookfest 📕🏆️ And the prize goes to…. @shanderswrites for Company!

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@clhubes The article takes pains to be like “The non-identical one looks like his mum and his brother!” Lol

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Someone approached me in the @latimesfob signing line and told me he had two things for me to sign…I thought he must be getting me confused with someone else (I only have one book) but he had my issue of @onestorymag 😭

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1. A couple days ago I saw a writer mention that they've had dozens of stories in journals and litmags and it hasn't gotten them closer to their goal of publishing a book. I see that sentiment often and I sympathize. The journey is frustrating and incremental and slow. But...

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1 year

*clears throat* 🗣️ WE HAVE A GALLEY I mean, how beautiful is this? (Cover by @kglyder )

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On another note, I bought @mdbell79 ’s book REFUSE TO BE DONE because I was hearing great things about it, and within a few pages of starting to read it a lit path opened in my brain and I figured out how my book is going to end.

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2 years

Can’t get over the fact that multiple ppl chose a moment when parents who rely on formula are worried about being able to keep their kids fed, and used it to viciously and gratuitously taunt those parents about not breastfeeding

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2 years

@ElyKreimendahl Mine asks, at least twice a week, “Remember when we were ALL SICK????” He remembers the last few days of it fondly as that time he got to have way more screen time than usual

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2 years

3yo has covid again, this time with symptoms. This means: - more missed school - more missed work - more worry And, best of all, he gets to live in the basement with his dad while I try desperately to keep two babies from catching it upstairs.

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@clhubes It’s really a feat for a style to be neither comfy nor sexy nor approachable nor fun. Like exactly what box DOES it check

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3 years

Don’t mind him, just casually wearing a sweater his wife made 🤗

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So excited to see Company on this list with so many awesome finalists!

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Congratulations to the finalists for the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction! 👏 Stephen Buoro, Sheena Patel ( @sheena_patel_ ), Shannon Sanders ( @ShandersWrites ), James Frankie Thomas ( @james_f_thomas ) & Ghassan Zeineddine ( @guszeineddine )

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@vanjchan Imagine being this hateful, having this much time on your hands, being this lacking in self-restraint, and also being ultimately this wrong, all at once. A real feat!!

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