On this lovely, warm, twinkling Thanksgiving morning, surrounded by family, hot coffee in hand, warm fire aglow in the corner, I am thankful for all of my many blessings. Attorney at Large wrote a lovely post about being grateful for even those things that don’t feel like blessings, and I thought that it would be a…
Category: Jack
My Loves
We played a game the other day, Jack and I. In this game, which we played on the sidewalk as we headed to a nearby bookstore, he would run ahead of me, then stop, turn, throw his arms wide, and run back saying “I LOVE you, Mama!” Then I’d swoop him up in my arms,…
Magical Thinking
Every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon, Jack goes to the nearby Children’s Hospital for his half hour speech therapy session. Incidentally, if you ever want to feel blue, hang out for a while at a children’s hospital. It is guaranteed to ruin your afternoon by shoving Perspective all up in your face. There’s nothing like a…
Censored
Oh man, lots of things on my mind, most of them improper for public consumption. The emotional load has been heavy lately, for a number of reasons, mostly related to extended family troubles (finance troubles, health troubles, all flavor and manner of trubs). Nothing too juicy, I promise – I’m not meaning to be a…
Whiling Away the Day
The cat is sleeping in a pile of clothes. Clean clothes, formerly folded, but now kneaded into a kitty nest for her. In the next room, pictures of her as a new kitten are popping up as the screensaver on the old laptop that I put out for Jack to play with while the Professor…