The first few weeks of being a mom were profound, not just emotionally but also, physically. All the changes you instinctually go through are miraculous.
I sometimes don't wash my hair for two weeks. That's pretty disgusting. It's short, so sometimes it's easier to just wet it.
A little goes a long way in Somalia: $5 will feed a person there for about two weeks.
I held so much in during the weeks prior to my fight with Ronda. I might have said or posted some things at the time that I now realize was not the right thing to do.
At about 33 weeks along in my pregnancy, the doctor suggested that I stay pretty close to home and not be touring and flying around. I was really left to face the kind of deep thinking that comes along with being a mother and bringing a child into the world.
Imagine somebody says you are going to die in a few weeks; I'd really rather not know.
Well, I wasn't going to tell anyone, but I've been seeing this really sweet guy for the past few weeks.
In my college years, I would retreat to our summer house for two weeks in June to read a novel a day. How exciting it was, after pouring my coffee and making myself comfortable on the porch, to open the next book on the roster, read the first sentences, and find myself on the platform of a train station.
Every year, I would spend weeks at a time in the hotels of distant cities.
Some scenes take days and weeks, and some scenes take an hour.
