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Evil Witches #12: Why is everything so dumb
In which we start to move, but slowly, because we get head rushes these days
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I know you.
I have a friend who was pregnant the same time as I was, both times. We share a ton about our lives because it’s easy to check in with someone who is going through what you are. Sometimes this type of relationship can get touchy when you realize you’
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Your angry dinners
Last September, the day of the Kavanaugh hearings, I spent a lot of time online with friends, revisiting old bad memories of men from before. At the end of the day we were mad at everybody, but mostly men. I asked them what rage-dinner they were making for our
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What is witches?
Evil Witches began as a few private Facebook messages to moms I trusted and liked—basically, people who would say “Oh my god, me too” and commiserate with me, or better yet, one-up me, when I needed to complain about domestic life, which was often. They are women who
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You have permission to...
I asked some of my old-hand mom friends what message they could send to new mothers out there, or to women discovering that they are witches (welcome.) The message was one of permission—what you are allowed to do but don’t think you can or should. Some of
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The Legend of Pregnancy Horror Finger
The other day, a friend crowdsourced tales of women's oddest pregnancy symptoms on Facebook, and the responses ranged from eczema to a better singing range to improved eyesight. But nobody had a better story than this lady: "When I was pregnant with my first, at around 30
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Evil Witches #11: Your bosses
• Greetings • When my firstborn was in preschool the teacher did this letter of the week thing. She’d send home a brown paper lunch bag in which you would send back a thing that started with that letter. I am sorry to say that I spent a lot of time
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Evil Witches #10: I know you
I have a friend who was pregnant the same time as I was, both times. We share a ton about our lives because it’s easy to check in with someone who is going through what you are. Sometimes this type of relationship can get touchy when you realize you’
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Evil Witches #9: Brain drain.
• Greetings • Two weeks ago I sent out a newsletter that very few of you got? I am told that sending this at a later hour and adding subject lines to the newsletters may help. If you missed it, enjoy this belated Valentine’s issue, delicious like a two-week-old
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Evil Witches Newsletter Vol. 8
• Semi-Valentines Greetings • Last summer I paid $10000000000 to have a birthday party for my kid at an inflatables place. A few days before the party I began to sweat the whole goodie bag situation. I asked a witch friend, whom I consider to be more on the traditional, rule-