What Are You Doing to Get Cozy?

Michelle Woo
Forge
Published in
3 min readNov 27, 2020

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Sometime in the fall, when the weather here in Southern California dips below 71 degrees, it makes its first appearance. I strut around the house wearing it as my husband groans. “Oh no, it’s the muumuu,” he says.

Oh yes, the muumuu. This is the name we’ve given my fleece zip-up robe that drapes down to my ankles and has a collar, a garment typically worn by women who are 90. I bought it at T.J. Maxx several…

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Michelle Woo
Forge
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Author of Horizontal Parenting: How to Entertain Your Kid While Lying Down (Chronicle Books)