Summer
We blow a hundred bubbles one by one. Our breath caught up in the glycerin spheres that float up above the trees. Bean watches each faint rainbow circle as it drifts away against the backdrop of pale blue. It is the beginning of summer. Lazy afternoons in a plastic wading pool with a red rubber [...]
A year here
A year ago, more or less, I started this blog hoping to find a reason to come to the page every day. I have. You. Thank you. For your kindness, your friendship, your encouragement, your humor, your beautiful art, your appreciation. This blog has become a kind of lens for me, allowing me to look [...]
16 months
My dear beautiful boy, The sweetness and heartache of watching you grow is almost too intense to bear. You will understand this someday: how your growing marks my growing too; your life making mine finite and fragile each day in a myriad of small ways. But for now you are content to ponder simpler things: [...]
Apparently I've been asking the wrong question…
Over the past two weeks, before I got here, I definitely whimpered once or twice, “Can it get any worse?” The answer is YES, you idiot. I have mastitis again. For a third time. The worst I’ve had it. Fever, soreness, the whole works. I’m ready to fully wean, but Bean has been more needy [...]

