by Mir | Dec 2, 2009 | My name is Grumplestiltskin
Just because Monkey has this nasty cold and I woke up this morning feeling logy and thick and sluggish does not mean that I am coming down with his cold. Just because I never actually, you know, stop kissing him on the mouth until he’s leaking snot from every...
by Mir | Dec 1, 2009 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony
My daughter owns The Care and Keeping of You, which is a really wonderful and fairly comprehensive book for girls about the changes that puberty wreaks on unsuspecting females. It doesn’t talk about sex, just the various physical and emotional changes of growing...
by Mir | Nov 30, 2009 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience", Offspring: ecstasy and agony
A several-day absence here is somewhat unprecedented for me—even when I had my hysterectomy, even when I was felled by the flu, heck, even when I went and got married, in the five and a half years this place has been around, I’ve generally not gone more...
by Mir | Nov 26, 2009 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony
Today I am thankful for many, many things—for my family, near and far, for a houseful of love and laughter, for a table about to be loaded up with delicious food, for a husband who silently worked around me as I wrecked the kitchen this morning, cleaning up...
by Mir | Nov 25, 2009 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience", Offspring: ecstasy and agony
I didn’t mean to disappear, like that, but I came down with an extreme case of Chickenwithitsheadcutoffitis. It’s not fatal—thankfully—but does cause me to talk to inanimate objects. Example: This morning as I brewed up a nice, big pot of...
