She is 50 years old, the oldest she will ever be. She is a large woman with light brown hair, almost auburn, and with round rosy cheeks and dimples in her elbows. I have never heard her voice, but I imagine it to be a little high, a bit thin, but sweet. Like my mother’s…
Supermodel
All I have time to say this busy Monday morning is – I am 149 pounds. Woot.
Tower of Babble
I called my sister early this morning to make some weekend arrangements. As I mentioned, I awoke pretty durned early this morning, and this phone call was pre-coffee. I was babbling, trailing off, making little sense. I said – I’m sorry, Manda – I’m tired. I can’t speak English this morning. Yeah, she replied, How…
It's the Insomnia Talking
I’m up for the day at 3:15 am. No amount of tearful exhaustion can bring me rest in the darkness of this pre-dawn Friday. I fell into a fitful sleep at 10, woke at 3:15 to pump (no alarm needed for this – your body wakes you up when it’s time), and that was all she wrote….
Harried
Work is busy for all kinds of stupid and boring reasons. Like – no human being could possibly accomplish everything that I am supposed to get done in a week. There is something very freeing about realizing that you can’t finish it and giving yourself permission not to. Patrick’s Gran is ill and he and…