Even my friends’ attempt at extreme exposure therapy, by showing up together to my 41st birthday party dressed in green frog onesies has not cured me of my lifelong phobia.
Claire Mullen
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Column: How a Kitchen Renovation Upset a Suppertime Tradition
Sitting down as a family to eat a home-cooked meal around our big kitchen table was an expectation—not optional, and not a novelty.
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Column: Plowing to the End of the Row
Columnist Claire Mullen on how a catchphrase from her elementary school principal rings true today as she rallies her family with new-school-year enthusiasm.
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Column: Tales of the Summertime Sheriff
Columnist Claire Mullen describes the list of chores she gave her children for the summer, and whether or not they’ve completed them successfully.
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Column: Stories of Summer Side Hustles
Columnist Claire Mullen writes about how different babysitting was in the 1990s and how her husband’s waiter job led to sweet tea spills and broken wine corks.
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Column: Musings of a Mortifying Mother
With Mother’s Day in mind, columnist Claire Mullen reflects on when she started becoming a mortifying mother in the eyes of her daughter.
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Column: AI—Artificial Intelligence or Accidental Idiocy?
Columnist Claire Mullen reflects on the uses of AI in everyday life.
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Column: You Are More Than Enough
Columnist Claire Mullen shares the technique she learned to be kinder to herself.
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Column: ‘Til Death Do Us Part
Columnist Claire Mullen reflects on the implications of the vows she took when she married.
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Column: My Burning Hatred of a Freezing Pastime
Columnist Claire Mullen recounts her unfortunate and painful experience on ski slopes at a West Virginian ski resort.
