Four years ago today, Mica was delivered at a little past mid-night by emergency C-section. While I was delighted to welcome him to the world, and glad for a healthy child, etc, etc, I cannot claim that it was a day of plans coming together and events progressing as I had hoped and wished. Today has a lot in common with that birth. We're all ( Read more... )

This coming week is quite likely to be insane. The whole coming month looks rather hectic, actually, with every weekend already claimed by some activity or another, plus a good chunk of time spent out of town.

I'm head chef for a meal at CoHo on Tuesday, and even though I deliberately planned something simple, I'm rather nervous about it. I've ( Read more... )