I’ve tried to get a handle on my feelings for the past several days.
I wish I knew where to start. I wish I knew how to process the fact that I could have died Thursday morning, alone, in a pleather recliner at the OB’s office.
I bet you’re probably thinking that I sound melodramatic. But the [...]

The Poo and her grandmother are outside, weeding my flower beds.
Guilt and my current physical limitations are duking it out inside my head, with guilt as a heavy favorite. I am sitting on the loveseat, feet up, cold beverage at my side, wishing I had the energy to go help.
But I don’t.
I learned that the [...]

So all of you are at BlogHer.
And those of you who aren’t probably feel like me - I know I’m in one Bitter Betty kind of mood. Not only am I NOT in San Francisco sipping fruity alcoholic beverages, I just got back from my OB appointment.
Where I found out that my iron is so [...]

One of the benefits of having two - yes, two - OB visits per week is that I get an ultrasound every Tuesday.
Today, I was on the table for a long time, waiting for Shaggy Boy to move. He moved around like a madman in the car, jerking my body this way and that, but [...]

The Poo and I baked cookies this morning, and decided it would be nice to drop some off for daddy and his friends, who were holed up in their office studying for Monday’s intensive doctoral qualifying exams.
We spent a few minutes chatting, and then we went to the grocery store for necessities like white grape [...]

Because they are just that good, and because I am just that lazy, and because the pain in my right ribcage from the foot lodged there is truly so excruciating that this morning I actually cried, and because I wrote my heart out yesterday:

Also, I wrote this over here. Go read it if you like. [...]

There’s a saying in my family:
“First is first.”
I am the eldest daughter of three children, and my late father was fond of pulling me aside and telling me that, no matter what, I had a secure place in his heart because first was first.
He and I were very close, a bond forged early in my [...]

Wow.
I mean, like, wow.
I am humbled by the number of people who took the time to A) listen to me bitch and B) leave me a comment yesterday. Not only did I get some great laughs, I was also forced to admit that my situation ain’t all that bad.
In fact, I knew that already. I [...]

I am a total bore.
*holds up hands*
No, really, I am.
I want to write something stirring, or lovely, or melancholy about the upcoming shift in my family, but I just can’t.
I’m all out of words, at least the good ones. I wrote three columns, an essay and two sidebars for publication yesterday and the well is, [...]

I am taking a quick break from my writing to eat lunch and pop in here to say howdy.
I’m at my virtual office, which has become the only place I really feel like I can concentrate and write well.
Which is very weird, considering that there is always music blaring and the joint is filled to [...]