Bridget Murray Law

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Outsourcing Our Brains: So Busy Recording, We Forget to Live

Bridget Murray Law posted an article on - Nov 6, 2009, 3:47 pm
A good friend of mine called me in a snit earlier this week. She was going to a big-deal event on Capitol Hill for work—some Senate thing—and a colleague had casually asked her to take photos. Sh...
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Hey Yelling People—I'm Standing Right Next to You

Bridget Murray Law posted an article on - Oct 30, 2009, 1:00 pm
Some people just can't seem to talk without yelling. You know that moment when you switch off the DVD player, and the TV blares at top volume? They're stuck in it. I had an office across the ...
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Dispatch from Migraine Lane: What Really Causes a Headache?

Bridget Murray Law posted an article on - Oct 22, 2009, 3:26 pm
"I wanna be, your SLEDGEHAMMER!" my husband is belting out over Peter Gabriel in the kitchen. He's in there doing something useful, like caulking, or—I don't know—gluing the windows shut. ...
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Quick, When Did Your Kid Start Talking? Forgotten, Haven't You?

Bridget Murray Law posted an article on - Oct 15, 2009, 12:31 pm
It’s early morning. Zoned, I shuffle into our neighborhood coffee shop in search of caffeine. Next to me, twin toddlers scarf their parents’ pancakes, waggling small fat feet squeezed into Robeez ...
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Child Growth Charts—Just Another Means of Making Parents Feel Like Doofuses

Bridget Murray Law posted an article on - Oct 7, 2009, 4:14 pm
It's a universal law of siblings that if one likes a particular food, the other detests it. My three-year-olds are no exception. This makes preparing any meal for them a complex mathematical equa...
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My Kid is Talking to a Tree, But He Ain't Got Nothin' on Me

Bridget Murray Law posted an article on - Oct 1, 2009, 1:28 pm
Muns. Case. Corny. And She. These were the names of my imaginary friends. At least that's what my mother claims. I'm not certain where I got the names from, but I suspect it had something to ...
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What's 'Endangered'?—You Have to Get Up Close and Personal With It to Get It

Bridget Murray Law posted an article on - Sep 24, 2009, 10:33 am
The balding, nerdy-scientist guy on TV was doing a love dance with a whooping crane. He ran alongside it, chest puffed out, bobbing, weaving, throwing sticks, and well…whooping. The bird did the sam...
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Don't Treat My Baby's Asthma Like It's a Zit on a Teenager

Bridget Murray Law posted an article on - Sep 18, 2009, 9:53 am
Spend a morning in the ER of an average city hospital, and you'll likely see a lot of asthma. I sure did, recently, when I rushed my three-year old, T-Rex, to a local D.C. hospital for an acute as...
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Questions, Questions, Questions—Curiosity Killed the Parents But Fed the Kid

Bridget Murray Law posted an article on - Sep 10, 2009, 4:02 pm
Remember the Volvo commercial from a couple of years back, where the little girl talks nonstop—from when dad straps her in to when he pulls onto the road?
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Good-Bye to Sex and the City Literacy

Bridget Murray Law posted an article on - Sep 3, 2009, 3:20 pm
Sometimes, when you least expect it, you’re reminded how out of it you’ve become. That’s how it was, recently, when I went to lunch with two svelte, single, child-free girlfriends. One of them ...
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Tired of Worrying? Make a Date With It

Bridget Murray Law posted an article on - Aug 27, 2009, 1:03 pm
We’ve all been there—up at 3 a.m. obsessing about every little problem. Here's my brain stream from a few nights ago:
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If I Were President There'd Be Child Care at Work

Bridget Murray Law posted an article on - Aug 21, 2009, 8:20 am
It’s what every new, work-at-office mom dreads more than anything. More than the high-stakes PowerPoint presentation that freezes after five minutes. The crabby colleague kerfuffle.
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Our House is a Very, Very, Very Crooked House

Bridget Murray Law posted an article on - Aug 13, 2009, 1:15 pm
My father had a name for the house I grew up in. He called it The Dog’s Breakfast. I guess that was flattering compared with The Pimple—his name for the house we almost bought instead. The Pimple...
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First Recollections: Spinning Stories into Memories

Bridget Murray Law posted an article on - Aug 6, 2009, 1:48 pm
It's a muggy Friday afternoon, and we're crossing the I-395 bridge in Washington, DC—in hot pursuit of a duck. Not the feathered kind. I'm talking about that giant duck-boat thing with w...
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Anger Management for Three-Year Olds—and Thirty-Eight-Year-Olds

Bridget Murray Law posted an article on - Jul 29, 2009, 9:57 pm
It's a recent week night, and we're slogging through what my cousin calls “the suicide hour”—AKA parental stress test, AKA kid pre-bed assembly-line. I'm referring, here, to that win...
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Hyper Kid? Stop Blaming Sugar

Bridget Murray Law posted an article on - Jul 23, 2009, 7:37 pm
It almost seems like a convenient excuse doesn’t it? There’s a reason Junior is streaking, bottomless, up and down the hall like Roadrunner, the dog barking and barreling after him. A reason he’...
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Umm, Actually, We DO Have All Day

Bridget Murray Law posted an article on - Jul 16, 2009, 5:04 pm
I had just thrown some leftovers into the office microwave and was waiting, impatiently drumming my fingers on the counter, when the front-page headline from The Onion caught my eye: “Everything Tak...
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Free to Explore the Great Outdoors

Bridget Murray Law posted an article on - Jul 8, 2009, 3:33 pm
It had been a long, traffic-heavy car ride to Chincoteague Island, with the usual “are we there yets?” getting more frequent and shrill with each mile. So when our car finally crunched across the ...
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Help! My Three-Year-Old is a Bigger Control Freak Than My Boss

Bridget Murray Law posted an article on - Jul 1, 2009, 9:23 pm
I realized I was in trouble when he was two. He and his twin brother had just changed classrooms at daycare, and the next day, on morning auto-parent, I sleep-walked toward the old classroom. “Nooo...
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Keep meaning to get out of this sooty city, get out in the country for some real air. But I can't hack the thought of the commute. And am far from independently wealthy. So here I stay.

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