This is just to say
That Aatish and I will be
Welcoming
A new,
Very small
Member of our family
In early July, 2014.
Ok, William Carlos Williams aside, this is clearly not "just to say."  This is a big, enormous, life-changing thing, and I am thrilled to be far enough along in my pregnancy (13 weeks) to be able to share this news in a more public way.  
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Yesterday at around 1:30 in the afternoon aatish2 and I became homeowners.  We now own a condominium in a three family building in Somerville.  The unit below us is now owned by the incomparable coraline and nacht_musik, the unit above by the marvelous beah and mrf_arch.  We are next door to aerynne and ert and small R.  The house is a 15 min. walk to Porter Square, a 20 min. walk to Davis, less ( Read more... )

At some point I will get around to posting about my amazing trip to Portland, but right now I need advice on something closer to home ( Read more... )

hey everybody -- just let you know, you can send money to Bonnie through PayPal via her e-mail address cutieperson@gmail.com

I have added this information to the previous post, but I wanted to make sure everybody saw it, so I wouldn't have to worry about unscreening comments.

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Tish wrote this, but I am posting it because I have wider LJ readership than he does:

As many of you know, Bonnie's younger sister was in a very bad car accident and is currently in a hospital at Dartmouth with multiple serious injuries. The hospital is 2.5 hours away and so not exactly a convenient hop from Boston. Bonnie's mom and her mom's ( Read more... )

yesterday I was grateful for my friendship with motive_nuance, And grateful that I got to see them successfully defend his PhD. I will now proceed to call him Dr. for at least the next month, probably longer, and revel in the fact that now that he has finished the defense I might get to see him more often, because I've been missing him something fierce ( Read more... )

Last week, without thinking too much or too hard about the particular metaphors used, I posted an excerpt from one of my favorite magazines, The Sun, about the language we use to describe mental illness. I posted it because when I first read it it gave me that little inner thrill of personal recognition, that moment that you sometimes get in ( Read more... )

In bullet points today, because why not?

• On the recommendation of jadelennox , I spent some portion of last night and a large chunk of today reading Suzanne Collins' book The Hunger Games. It's not quite as good as Flora Segunda  but it comes darn close, and that is saying an awful lot if you are me. (For those of you who have not heard me rant about the ( Read more... )

Whoever you are leaving aggressive and inappropriate comments on my post about the wedding, and my gratitude for my amazing, supportive, joyful, rich community, you are hereby let know that I will not put up with your attacks on those who have supported me with love, grace, and courage over many many years.  I love and honor them more than I fear ( Read more... )

Yesterday was the one-week mark, but I had a birthday party for a very important five-year-old to go to, and a very important three-year-old as well, and that was so clearly more vital than anything going on with me that although there was talk about the wedding, and doing things about the wedding, it mostly felt like the calm before the storm.

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