• ALL CAPS

    Contractions.  Contractions for days.  Most constitute a mild cramp – just painful enough to be irritating and keep me from sleeping well (e.g. it is 4am right now) – but some are catch-your-breath…

  • Polar Arctic Cold What-Have-You

    We’re home today.  A Tuesday.  It’s cold down here, colder than anyone under the age of 40 has ever seen, and schools closed just in case of pipes bursting or buses breaking down.…

  • 2014: The Great Look Forward

    I won’t be making any resolutions just now.  I can see myself making some exercise goals at some point in the spring, once I have recovered from the birth.  But resolutions are a…

  • The Great Lookback

    1. What did you do in 2013 that you’d never done before? I second chaired a trial.  Bench trial (meaning just judge, no jury), but still – it was pretty awesome. 2. Did…

  • Hodie Christus Natus Est

    It’s been a lovely Christmas season – I just did the camera photo dump, and so I’m going to put up the best pictures from our lovely December.  Ergo, this post will be a longish,…