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We are spending a lot of time at the cemetery these days. (We’re not alone.) It’s in walking distance of our house, it’s a large grassy car-free space …
Laura Hazard Owen
Mar 25
We walked up to the big empty field near our house. As we approached it we saw a huge swarm of tiny flies. They were congregating around a garbage can …
Laura Hazard Owen
Mar 19
Day 2 (4?) and we’re still all confused about what day it is. My phone tells me it’s Tuesday but honestly I don’t know if I believe it. We went out on …
Laura Hazard Owen
Mar 18
I put a bag of Cadbury mini eggs in my dresser drawer and I eat one every time I go upstairs (Kevin the secret is out). I asked Alice this morning what…
Laura Hazard Owen
Mar 17
In my head I think of the narrative arc of these newsletters. There will be a beginning, a middle, and an end and it all takes place over max three wee…
Laura Hazard Owen
Mar 16
Maternity leave is not totally unlike a quarantine. Sure, you are “off,” but the coziness verges on cabin fever. You are far more concerned than usual …
Laura Hazard Owen
Mar 2
Meet Eileen Cabot O’Keefe, born 02/02/2020 at 10:31 AM. I’d gone in for a regular prenatal appointment on Tuesday, at 37 weeks and 4 days pregnant, and…
Laura Hazard Owen
Feb 24
Part I of a series on food
Laura Hazard Owen
Nov 14, 2019
One thing I am good at is abruptly becoming a passionate supporter of something I used to disdain. Not to brag, but sometimes all it takes is the light…
Laura Hazard Owen
Oct 6, 2019
Months and months passed, oops. We took the kids to California, including two days in Disneyland. I went to yoga pretty regularly. I bought some Madewe…
Laura Hazard Owen
Sep 15, 2019
“I think about you all the time. I think about what you’re wearing, and what you’re doing, and who you’re doing it with. I think about the friends you …
Laura Hazard Owen
Jan 18, 2019
It hadn’t been my plan to take Alice with me to get Botox, because my plan had been that I would tell no one. But when you take the week before Christm…
Laura Hazard Owen
Jan 11, 2019
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