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Wednesday, March 13, 2019
It was one o’clock now, I hadn’t cleaned up from Shabbos at all, I was just sitting on the bathroom floor — not crying, just alone
Esther Kurtz
Esther is boring and normal, bananas in her yogurt make her very happy. She lives in NJ with her husband, children and many opinions
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Wednesday, March 13, 2019
The masks that conceal who we really are and instead project the image we prefer people see? What do we gain — and lose — by donning them?
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Wednesday, March 06, 2019
I’d responded in the 24-hour window, but it had been too late, and without me they did everything wrong: got defensive, denied any wrongdoing, threatened to sue
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Tuesday, February 26, 2019
Negotiations, I remember reading once, are not a zero-sum game with winners and losers, but a transaction where each side prioritizes what they really want
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Wednesday, February 20, 2019
I want to give this to him. But there are so many buts. Who has time to plan a seudah? And matching costumes, you’ve got to be kidding me
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Tuesday, February 12, 2019
“Ari—” I started, but I was dumbstruck. How do I react to Ari doing something so huge and so good and so complete for me?
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Tuesday, February 05, 2019
“Why do you have to be so mature?” she said finally. “Why do you have to say the things that just take my whole rant and somehow defeat it?
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Tuesday, January 29, 2019
My son — he has an imagination. Possibly more than me. I don’t recall making up the stories and adventures that he does
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Tuesday, January 29, 2019
Yes, that’s what I’d do, ignore it. Went against everything I believed in, but for once I saw the light. Ignorance can sometimes be bliss
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Tuesday, January 22, 2019
“Tell me everything,” Ari said, and I both melted and froze. Am I so not used to someone genuinely caring about me?
Tuesday, January 15, 2019
“Who cares, do you see me complaining? If I need supper I can cook or buy it, too. I’m a big boy”
