This is the work I am learning to do

Hello friends! Where have you all scuttled off too this month? I miss you around here… I’ve been changing things up… have you noticed? It’s still a work in progress. (I crashed my entire theme twice. I wish I understood CSS.) Something about having the kickstarter widget broadcast in the sidebar was really throwing off [...]

Sometimes it’ts like this

Nearly two feet of snow tonight, and the plow truck is in the shop (timing is everything.) Shoveling snow in the gathering dark, the fat flakes melted on my cheeks, still hot from crying. Sometimes it’s like this, and today it was (although tonight we’re better.) It felt good to throw my body into the [...]

The way we dance

Little Sprout: We danced today, you and I. You wound your way between my knees, around my swivel chair, across my studio floor scattering things about, mouthing everything, drooling, laughing. And I, well, I was busy dreaming; stringing words together, watching sunlight, reading things and feeling hopeful. I was also trying to get just about [...]

birthday boy!

Right now a year ago, Sprout was 18 minutes old. (A love letter to follow.)

In case things ever seem too serene:

Last night, post workout, DH and I were both in the pre-dinner hunger coma stage of things, trying to pull together tacos, while Bean was insisting on coloring and baking the Shrinki-Dinks (aren’t they toxic or something?) he received in the mail from an aunt for his birthday, and Sprout was walking in circles (yes [...]