Pulling the Thread

Pulling the Thread

Finishing Things

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Elise Loehnen
Nov 24, 2022
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This weekend, I posted a story on Instagram of a photo of a sink full of dishes—organized, with utensils in a cup of water, but undone. It was relatively unremarkable but typical of how it goes in my house. My wonderful husband Rob does some of the dishes, and then he simply moves others around, leaving them “to soak.” Or, he’ll do everything except for

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