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Why Can't the People Have What They Want?
On doing fun things at an un-fun time
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Katherine Sharpe
The Telephone Disease
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…
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Katherine Sharpe
Eat at Mama's
Sometimes I forget I'm a mother. Scratch that: sometimes, after directing my focus toward something else, I resurface into the knowledge of my…
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Katherine Sharpe
Quarantine Rattail
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…
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Katherine Sharpe
The Arc of the Present
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…
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Katherine Sharpe
Parks and Rec
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…
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Katherine Sharpe
Easter Sunday
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…
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Katherine Sharpe
Occasional Katherine
A postcard, now and then

Occasional Katherine

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