What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding: A Memoir
Shockingly (to maybe only me), being in a relationship has done the opposite of limiting me. It’s emboldened me to try something much scarier than I would have tried if I were alone.
Kristin Newman • What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding: A Memoir
One of my dad’s best pieces of parenting advice had been very simple: wait. He
Kristin Newman • What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding: A Memoir
life is an endless series of choosing between two things you want almost equally. And you have to evaluate and determine which awesome thing you want infinitesimally more, and then give up that other awesome thing you want almost exactly as much. You have to trade awesome for awesome. Everyone I knew, no matter what they chose, was at least a littl
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It was the kind of travel chemistry that doesn’t happen all the time, and it all happened because I lost my passport and my plan. If I had gone on the trip I originally booked, I would have been with older, rich, married couples. It was a reminder for me that reinforced my travel rules—don’t overplan, and don’t book expensive trips if you want to m
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You can’t control everything. Just enjoy what the world is giving you.
Kristin Newman • What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding: A Memoir
The man she finally fell in love with was a dashing European-born, American-educated businessman who lived in Mexico City … and who broke her heart. His name was Laszlo, but Sasha gave him a cute nickname: “Promiser of Everything and Deliverer of Nothing.”
Kristin Newman • What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding: A Memoir
I always say that I need to travel to keep from dying of boredom from my own internal monologue. I think that, generally, most of us have a total of about twenty thoughts. And we just scroll through those thoughts, over and over again, in varying order, all day every day.
Kristin Newman • What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding: A Memoir
How even if your life seemed quiet and typical, you never knew if around the next bend you were about to become something spectacular.
Kristin Newman • What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding: A Memoir
Vacation romances are so sweet because they’re finite. Every moment together is one of your last. They’re the one bite of dessert you’re allowed on your big diet, the fifteen-minute nap stolen by an exhausted new parent. The world is a thing that exists only to tear the two of you apart, which brings you very close together. And the fact that you f
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