I never knew real love until the day I heard you sing Let It Go.

The song is nearly unrecognizable on your lips. But what you lack in enunciation and melody, you make up for in earnestness. I can feel your tiny heart soaring as you rise like the break of dawn, and you can’t help yourself - you tangle your little fingers in my hair insistently, ( Read more... )

“It’s an outpatient procedure - just a minor excision. For an older child, we would just use a local anesthetic, but we can’t count on cooperation with children this young. It’s safer to put them under with general anesthesia.”

Excision. Excision.I can see the scalpel in my mind’s eye, imagine the table of sterile instruments. But every time I ( Read more... )

“You’re doing real good, Stacey. That’s it, just like that ( Read more... )

It was a good trip, one of so many. Just you and me, zigzagging down the aisles, cartoonish sound effects for every hairpin turn or sudden reversal. You had just started saying hi to strangers, early and often and without prompting. You even stopped in the crosswalk on the way into the store to wave and say hi to the driver who was patiently ( Read more... )

This week’s entry is an intersection with the very talented douchejuice. He has done me the honor of not only collaborating with me, but also stepping up as my champion to represent me in this week’s voting over at therealljidol. Please start by reading his entry here.Memories are markers that show us the paths that we have walked. When we lose some of these signpoints, ( Read more... )

A pregnant friend asked me today if I had any motherly wisdom to share with her as she prepares for her first child ( Read more... )

It doesn’t look like much of anything - just a tiny white square of paper in his cupped palm. It’s no more than a centimeter on each side ( Read more... )

“Right now, Timothy meets the criteria for Autism Spectrum Disorder ( Read more... )

It’s pandemonium at the Love house, and I wouldn’t have it any other way ( Read more... )

Oooohhh... Stace - what about the elephant in the room when you are by yourself?!?!?

We all avoid our own shit until we can't ignore it.

Indeed we do. Thanks, L.

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For this season of LJ Idol, I’m playing two truths and a lie. Two of the three stories below are true.

* * * * *“Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this ( Read more... )