by Mir | May 16, 2011 | Haven't been hit by lightning yet!, Offspring: ecstasy and agony
It’s amazing how many things you can pack into any given day between dragging your butt out of bed late and then sinking into a catatonic slump shortly after lunch, and then between wiping the drool from your chin later that afternoon and falling into bed...
by Mir | May 15, 2011 | Detritus
So the good news is that I feel confident that I’m now firmly on the road to Less Crazy, thanks to the miracle of modern pharmaceuticals. (And all God’s people—or at least the ones who have to live with me—said AMEN.) The bad news is that this...
by Mir | May 12, 2011 | Aspi(e)rations/AD(D)orations
This morning over breakfast, I mentioned to Otto the recent article showing that March conceptions are most likely to result in autistic kids, which I find fascinating. (I like to think I’d find it fascinating even if Monkey hadn’t been a March conception,...
by Mir | May 11, 2011 | Ottomatic For the People
We have arrived once again at the portion of our program where life needs to pause, briefly, so that Otto and I can contemplate our life together. The fact that I have been half-joking for weeks that thinking too hard about this past year can only lead to madness was...
by Mir | May 10, 2011 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience"
To listen to me yammer on and on about my garden, you might be tempted to believe I’ve always been a natural-born nurturer of living things. That would be an erroneous assumption. Today at Off Our Chests, I’m giving you a little peek into my past…...
