(Note: This was actually written at 8:30 AM CST on Thursday, but I haven’t been able to get wired until this morning. Argh …)
Chicago Midway Airport is a complacent substitution for my office as I head to Los Angeles for BookExpo America this morning. My book is coming out September 2nd, and I’ll be [...]

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Eggie provided the sage advice that would become the prize package we received in the mail on Saturday. Joanna, our best friend from Southern California, printed off Eggie’s bullet-pointed list, highlighted the main points of each entry in yellow, and sent us one item that would help us achieve each and every suggestion.

Candles for [...]

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One year ago (the more I think about that statement the more my head swirls) my sister, Angie, gave birth to the most wonderful baby on earth. For those of you who don’t know, Aliyah was a long time in the making. Angie had over half of her cervix removed and was told that she [...]

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Julia Baird, I have never met you but if I ever get the chance I hope we can sit down at a local coffee shop situated in a quaint, non-Manhattan corner of the real world to discuss why you need to conduct better research before your quasi-journalistic diatribes make it to print. Sex and the [...]

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Reproduction the old-fashioned way is the Constance and Matt way for this month and so far it’s been a bit like going to bed in Gary, Indiana only to wake up in St. Tropez. Constance, no longer a delicious hormone-filled cupcake, is feeling a bit like her old self again. She even wanted to go [...]

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Tucked inside the money-lined walls of a posh fertility clinic in Chicago’s River North distric, one of four highly trained infertility specialists culled from the finest baby-makin’ minds in the world will begin to probe our naughty bits to begin the IVF process for an unsuspecting bald guy and his beautiful wife. Eggs and sperm [...]

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I wear my heart on my sleeve, usually alongside a “trophy wife” button Constance gave me for my birthday three years ago. I’m also not the kind of guy to mix emotions or messages – if I like you my whole world knows of said adoration. Yesterday I had lunch with my intern’s academic adviser [...]

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Meghan from A Little Sweetness was the first to suggest it, followed by my blog buddies, Wafenblack and Heather at BigP and Me. Those digital pregnancy tests I purchased in order to retrieve cash for the cleaners will remain hidden until they will, for certain, be a definitive, conclusive picture to post on this blog.
But [...]

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Our eco-cleaning service starts today, which means our house will be spotless and toxin-free for a mere $40/week. For two people who never carry cash, however, it will be an ongoing challenge to remember to hit an ATM to fill the white envelope every Friday morning.
Last night we had to go to the CVS [...]

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Yesterday my friend, Tim, filled a rather large plastic storage container with cranberry bliss bars, homemade replicas of my favorite Starbucks indulgence of the December holiday season, and gave them to me as a spirit-raiser. And it really, really worked. Nothing can make a guy feel happier than a good old-fashioned sugar coma that leads [...]

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