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 can’t imagine it. His presence has thus far rendered yours unthinkable, because each time I try to think of you, he elbows…
Country Mouse and City Mouse, Part I
We spent spring break at my parents’ home in suburban Nashville. After a week nestled in the warm embrace of comfortable Suburban Sprawl, we returned to our apartment in the somewhat grittier Big City of New Orleans, and most of the drive from the former to the latter was spent in discussion about which is…
Ohians and Fifers and Mares
My title today comes from one of Jack’s Veggie Tales Movies, The Wonderful Wizard of Ha’s (a very silly spoof on Oz). My story today is about Mares – er, rather, Bears. Stop me if I’ve shared this with you already, but it’s one of my faves. Our story occurs in northern California in early…
Oral Argument
“Good afternoon your Honors, may it please the court, my name is Reluctant Grownup and I will be representing the appellant today. Please excuse the applesauce on my right boob; after perfecting my professional maternity outfit this morning, which included getting out the iron for probably the tenth time in my son’s two years of…
Rubber Duck*
I think the whole stupid world is out to get me today. I’m not normally a negative nelly, but this is the way I roll when I don’t get any sleep, which I haven’t for almost a week now, due to a stupid cold and stupid pollen and how it affects my two year old’s…