I’m as empty as the cornhusks that float into our yard in the fall months.
My words are being saved up right now, saved for the paid work that requires me to float lightly over my keyboard, engaging a sense of humor that is, for the most part, dormant at the moment.
I’ve entered the phase of [...]

This summer has been tight.
We’ve had to spend a lot of money, and we have little coming in. Mr. C’s trip to Italy will be paid for by the university, but not until after he returns in late July. We’ve had to stock up on diapers again, and duds for the little guy who’s due [...]

When I kissed The Poo goodbye this morning, she wrapped her arms around my neck and squeezed.
“Mommy has to go to the doctor,” she explained to her babysitter. “She has to get Shaggy aaaaallll checked out.”
This morning was my 21-week prenatal appointment, and while all the measurements and the heartbeat are great, for the third [...]

A few months ago I learned that the president of The Poo’s cooperative preschool reads my blog.
While the moment of her revelation nearly gave me a heart attack (as several preschool-related posts ran through my mind and my life flashed before my eyes), the connection has been a good one. She even started her own [...]

Things have been a little slight around here lately.
I have plenty of emotional battles going on inside my heart - the strong desire to wrap my body around my daughter 24/7 in anticipation of having another small person to care for; the push-pull I’m feeling about her growing up before my eyes; and the future [...]

This has been a trying month.
The Poo turned three, and with that came a sea change in her. Her equilibrium is off, and therefore so is mine. She’s been really sick, and so have I. Christmas is stressful for us in so many ways, and I know this is also affecting her mood and behavior.
It’s [...]

My Google Reader tried to kill me in my sleep last night.
My eyes are blurred and my head is buzzing and Thursday I have to be the “B” parent at preschool (B stands for bathroom and people, we’re talkin’ two-year-olds here, 12 of ‘em) and I am on deadline … crap. I mean, I just [...]

Hey there, everybody.
You may have noticed that the archives list over there is growing, and that your bloglines and twitter subscriptions are filling up with new posts that are actually old.
I’m moving some of my favorite posts over from the old Blogger site, and I’ve simultaneously integrated twitter into my new platform so if you’re [...]

If you really want to put the zap on your blogging mojo, you should rush out and read The Cult Of The Amateur: How Today’s Internet Is Killing Our Culture, by Andrew Keen.
I was cleaning the bathrooms and listening to our local public radio station (very, very glamorous, no?), when Keen was on air discussing [...]

Hard to believe that it is almost November, especially considering that the thermometer here in good old Chambana still hovers somewhere around the surface temperature of the sun.
But soon it will be the holiday season. And we all know how much I love the holidays.
To help me get through it - to help me keep [...]