Katherine Sometimes
Sometimes I think about a passage in the first part of Slaughterhouse-Five, where a middle-aged Kurt Vonnegut describes how he sometimes gets drunk in the evening and stays up late, placing calls to people he hasn’t talked to in years. The vibe is wistful: he has little to say t…
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Sometimes I forget I'm a mother. Scratch that: sometimes, after directing my focus toward something else, I resurface into the knowledge of my motherho…
Katherine Sharpe
Nov 14, 2020
I don’t mean to gloat, but my kids are back at daycare. A few days before the start of the month the school wrote to the parents with options. The kids…
Katherine Sharpe
Jul 28, 2020
Spring has turned to summer, and beyond summer I can faintly see fall. My older kid still divides her memories into "before the germs were here" and "w…
Katherine Sharpe
Jun 10, 2020
It's a rainy morning here in quar. Rainy days are tough, since our whole routine with the kids at this time revolves so heavily around trips outside: u…
Katherine Sharpe
May 6, 2020
On Easter afternoon, our family decided to indulge in a walk by the Baltimore Inner Harbor. It was beautiful out, one of the preternaturally clear days…
Katherine Sharpe
Apr 13, 2020
When Jesse and I lived in Berkeley, we knew a lot of people who worked in science and technology. (Ironically, now that we live in the shadow of Johns …
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Jan 2, 2020
A TYPICAL CONVERSATION CHARACTERS CHILD (A child, age 2 years and 2 weeks. Aside from Sesame Street,the characters CHILD mentions—DIEGO, LUKE, RAE-RAE,…
Katherine Sharpe
Jun 8, 2018
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