I tend to resist the manner in which gender is made so central to all discussions about infants and the yet-to-be-born. I understand why, however. How frustrating to find that someone you don't know at all has become central to your life! One cannot help but turn to divination for some sense of them. The deck of cards required to adequately ( Read more... )

I asked my young niece an important question today: "Do you know what a nerd is ( Read more... )

My Dearest Allyson Rose ( Read more... )

I went to the beach, and I learned the following ( Read more... )

I talked to Alex. There was music, and a big salad with strawberries in it. I have a secret diary on the answering machine of my friend Liz's mobile phone, and fountains are lit at night and children splash in them, and the sky roared and the universe was aligned perfectly: the safe little bombs, and the only break in the trees, and then me. My ( Read more... )