by Mir | Aug 3, 2012 | Woohoo!
Otto’s car isn’t salvageable, unless you count “costing as much money to fix it as the car is worth” as salvageable, which I do not. Monkey is on day two of a Mysterious Fever, which today came with a bonus Mysterious Rash. And yet… my...
by Mir | Aug 2, 2012 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience", Ottomatic For the People
I knew, of course, that yesterday would be a hard day. Days when we see Chickadee for family therapy are hard, because she is not exactly what you would call pro-therapy. Things are better—so much better—than they used to be there, really. There is no...
by Mir | Jul 31, 2012 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience"
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the notion of things you “have” to have or that are worth working towards. In a lot of ways, life was simpler when my biggest concerns were packing lunches and getting some work done every day. On the other hand,...
by Mir | Jul 30, 2012 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience", Offspring: ecstasy and agony
There’s a part of me—rather a large part of me, actually—that wants to just walk away from the blog and leave the last post up forever as the latest and greatest thing I’ll ever have to say. Because there is simply no topping the generosity...
by Mir | Jul 27, 2012 | Woohoo!
Actually, I do know where to start. With this: THANK YOU. Thank you for reading, thank you for caring, thank you for being generous beyond measure. You don’t need to care about my kid, or about a bunch of other kids you’ve never met, but you do, and you...