Mother’s Day morning at church. A carnation for me, my mother-in-law, all the mothers who come. Home for lunch. And then I drive away. I’m really sad.
Between
We were down to nursing just once a day, in the morning. He would wake at 4, 5, 6, always early, and I would pull him into Jack’s bed and lay between them and I would nurse him back to sleeping, convince him that we needn’t start our day just yet. I was sometimes hours…
Top Five Asinine-Behavior-By-A-Guy Moments
I have lots of really awesome and cool men in my life. I also have known a lot of total losers. This post is about the latter. And please – PLEASE – share yours with me in the comments. I got a girl out there who needs to hear that she ain’t alone, and that…
Initial Thoughts
Both the liberal and the conservative reactions to the death of Osama bin Laden are irritating me. We are irreconcilably divided in this country, and it’s never more obvious than taking a gander at my facebook status feed in the wake of the death of a terrible, terrible man. People have been so spun, they…
Birthdays and Easter and Exams, Oh My!
4-23-11 Easter Eve I worked most of the day, on a paper. But I came home around dinner time to do some Easter festivities. We dyed a dozen hard boiled eggs. It was the perfect amount. Growing up in a family of five, as I did, I think we must have dyed 3 or 4…