May 18, 2010

liftoff

What are your earliest memories? I remember being four and eating a green pepper in pre-K in the back room of the neighborhood rec center. I remember that once in a while the janitor, Jim, would build huge castles using floor mats. I thought it was cool that a man named “gym” built castles [...]

May 12, 2010

go your own way

I started to write this as a comment to Liz at Mom101‘s thoughtful post this morning but it got too long and ranty so I’m sticking it here. I’m not disagreeing with her. I’m just kind of exploding with a reaction to the past few weeks on the Internet:

I resist the notion that [...]

May 12, 2010

a good day

I’m anxious so often that I’m nervous to say I had a good day today.

So instead of keeping the simple joy a secret, I’ll write it down here. So that it’s real.

Today was real.

And today was normal. Ordinary. The boys slept until a decent hour. Breakfast went smoothly. The baby [...]