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Take a walk in your neighborhood while pushing your baby who refuses to nap in a stroller. Name five things you see, four things you hear, three things you smell, two things you touch, and one thing you taste. Repeatedly pick up the pacifier from the trash-strewn sidewalk and rub it with a disinfecting wipe. Taste is the hardest one! Sitting in the kitchen while your baby naps, think about the last misunderstanding you had. Turn down the sound on the baby monitor and write about the misunderstanding from the other person’s perspective. Then write about the misunderstanding from your own perspective before the baby’s wails become loud enough to prompt a “checking in” text from your downstairs neighbor. Take your time with this one. Write a story about an underground tunnel that leads someplace unexpected while you sit between a radiator and a diaper pail. Using a piece of scrap paper you got from the recycling because your laptop is out of battery and the charger is in the nursery, write an acrostic poem using the name of your favorite flower. Turning over the paper to the side that says “We ❤️ Our Customers,” rewrite each line of the poem backward. Pick up a call from the pediatrician, who confirms that the toothpaste to brush the baby’s single tooth should not contain fluoride. Hang up and rewrite every other line forward. Forget whether the pediatrician said the toothpaste should contain fluoride or should not contain fluoride. Call the pediatrician back. Lose the scrap paper in the vacuum cleaner when your spouse vacuums up crushed Doritos. Write a physical description of a character who will later betray your protagonist, while deciding whether you should clean up the mashed avocado smeared on the underside of your laptop now or later. Remember that you ran out of disinfecting wipes. Realize that it is only eight-ten in the morning. Think about the scariest moment of your life. Encourage your baby to do his physical-therapy exercises while you write about the moment as though it just happened. Insure that your baby is alternating […]
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