Glory and I went to baby story time at the library on Friday. it was pure delight, even though she slept through the first half. I was quite proud of myself that I already knew four other moms who showed up, and met a fifth ( Read more... )

My anxiety is almost completely banished. Little remains to prepare for her arrival. Nesting is almost complete. My body alternates between clear signals of progress and feeling, if anything, unusually comfortable and energetic. Today is the Summer Solstice. The full, Cancer Super Moon is about to make her appearance. I'm one official week ( Read more... )

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Today is my brain and cervical MRI, in hopes of discovering the cause of my mysterious neuropathy. 7 months of weird tingling, numbness and buzzing in various areas of my body. I don't generally consider myself to be claustrophobic, and was in fact nearly agoraphobic as a child. Over the years, though, I seem to have slowly shifted, and ( Read more... )

Pisces via Brezsny ( Read more... )

"We habitually serve children; and this is not only an act of servility toward them, but it is dangerous, since it tends to suffocate their useful, spontaneous activity. We are inclined to believe that children are like puppets, and we wash them and feed them as if they were dolls. We do not stop to think that the child who does not do, does not ( Read more... )

July 8, 2009 ( Read more... )

Happy Father's Day to the sexiest man in the bidness ( Read more... )

We have these two, enormously heavy volumes of the complete Far Side comics. Victory will sit there on the couch for hours reading them. Tonight, she had her non-working 'Secret Teacher' cellphone and a tiny, plastic Wizard's staff for a stylus. She exclaimed, "oh, there is NO WAY." I asked her what she was doing, and she told me she was ( Read more... )

This makes me laugh AND gives me a headache... Rather like the 11 steps towards parent readiness ( Read more... )