23 Months

Dear Bean, The sentences have begun. Verbs strung together with prepositions and nouns; laughter punctuating the funny parts. In the bath tonight, the water up past your frog belly, and your sandy hair flecked with droplets, you pulled a pair of your summer sunglasses connected by an elastic band up around your legs. “Like pulling [...]

Unrelated bits & pieces

* I drove back from the ophthalmologist (a random unidentifiable pain & redness in my eyes prompted the visit) tonight, and it was the most disorienting and sweaty palmed trip ever. Headlights in dilated eyes: not fun. Now I have blurry vision and the feeling of vertigo whenever I look at anything up close. But [...]

Wanting to dream

My eyes ache tonight, from crying and laughing both, and I’m on the verge of being sick. I spent the weekend away with a close friend, talking over sushi and Japanese beer, about the way things really are. How everything in my life right now is like a delicate broken china cup, held together with [...]

Hi. Already.

Hello, Internets ! I haven’t checked my stats in so long, I believe I’ve forgotten my passwords. But I know that there are many cool people out there who come here, and some of you write me absolutely awesome emails, or send me lovely chocolate covered figs, or gorgeous photos, or cds with amazing girly [...]

Little things

Celebrating little things: potty training (thank you for all the tips!), my first art show (it’s up, and my pieces look beautiful!), finally finding a baby sitter, starting a clay class with DH (the past two weeks have been so hopeful, so tenuously joyous, so tender), and really pretty underwear. Also this: planning to do [...]