Liam

  • Liam’s Birth Story

    Monday I went to work and felt like hell pretty much all day.  Braxton Hicks contractions plagued me (a “practice” contraction that makes your belly muscles hard), so that my stomach and ribs…

  • Tuesday’s Child is Full of Grace

    6:33 pm, he made his way into this world, 8 pounds, 5 ounces of squirming, squalling misery. Like my labor with his brother, a slow start, but a dash to the finish.  This…

  • Inspiration-less

    The root word for inspiration (spiro) means to breathe, did you know that? It’s very hard to be clever or thoughtful or inspirational when one literally cannot breathe.  But I’m sick of writing…

  • Hot

    It is hot, and the AC does not work, not in our house, not with a mouse, not in our car, makes me go RAWR.  (Sorry, Seuss.) Angus (not his real name) is…

  • A Quick Note to My Son

    Angus (not your real name) – Throughout this pregnancy, you have  been more of an abstraction than even your brother was, which seems counterintuitive – I know what I’m getting, and yet I…