Category Archives: toddlers
Happy belated Mother’s Day from a 2-and-a-half-year-old mom
Living things change. They adapt and grow and die. Trees leaf out, snakes molt, babies grow up into frat boys. It just happens. Aren’t you glad I picked this picture instead of one of a frat boy? So why is it I thought the moment I had a baby that I would be a (…) MORE »
Dandelion Days
All this beauty You might have to close your eyes And slowly open wide All this beauty, we traveled all night We drank the ocean dry And watched the sun rise You can ask about it, but nobody knows the way No breadcrumb trail to follow through your days It takes an axe, sometimes a (…) MORE »
Concert-going: then and now
“Why don’t I just go pick up D’s burrito and go drop J off at S’s so that you can have some extra time to finish at work and then we can just meet at the house and go.” This? The culmination of our plot to escape the vacuum of our family life for a (…) MORE »
The Two Percent
Nathaniel is my only child. He’s 20 months old. I had him when I was 40. For most of my life, I never planned on having children at all, then I met my husband who used to answer, “A dad,” when he was a kid and adults asked him what he wanted to be when (…) MORE »
Starting Somewhere
You have to start somewhere. That’s the line that’s on repeat in my head today. I’ve been reading The Mists of Avalon for the last couple of months. In case you haven’t heard of it, it’s a cult classic re-telling of the Arthurian Legend from the perspective of the women. I just finished the last (…) MORE »
I Used to be a Backyard Nudist
I used to be a backyard nudist. My husband and I called it “Nude Scone Time”. Like somehow we could make being nude in our back yard respectable if we used a British tea term. We live in the desert where the temperatures allow for nearly year round “Nude Scone Time”. And in a city (…) MORE »
