In-between
Yesterday she made her own breakfast for the first time without my help. And if it seems to you a little odd that my daughter would be doing this fairly simple task for the first time at age 9, well, … Continue reading
Yesterday she made her own breakfast for the first time without my help. And if it seems to you a little odd that my daughter would be doing this fairly simple task for the first time at age 9, well, … Continue reading
Hysteroscopy, derived from the Greek ὑστέρα “hystera” meaning uterus, is a procedure in which a thin camera is inserted into a woman’s vagina, up through her cervix, and into the uterus so that its interior might be viewed for diagnostic purposes. … Continue reading
The kid got a new iPod Touch for Christmas. She had a first generation version of the same for several years, but technology got ahead of it, and we finally reached the point where we stopped being able to update … Continue reading
It starts one bright winter morning. You wake up bleeding. Except you shouldn’t be – it’s not that time, as your mother would say cannily. But as with so many other things, your mind agrees to spin a reassuring story … Continue reading
At the ripe old age of 41, I’ve accepted, finally, that there are just some things I’m always going to suck at. I’m a decent writer, an okay Mom, a fairly good partner and friend – and in the Grand … Continue reading
So this happened. It all started out so innocently. A few days back, the kid was perusing BrainPOP.com (which I think is awesome and wholly support, but have no affiliation with, lest there be any doubt), a site with all … Continue reading
I’ve been immeasurably sad since I heard the news that Steve Jobs had passed. It probably seems strange to some that I would mourn someone I’ve never met so intensely. But maybe it’s not so strange. In the summer of … Continue reading
I am from the Pine Barrens and Seaside Heights, from the snowcapped Rockies and broad plains below. I am from small feet heavy with outsized rollerskates, from boxy red plastic Sears & Roebuck record players and buckets of legos, from … Continue reading
No one will come to your party. Not a single soul. You’ll trip, you’ll fall. They’ll laugh – hands conspiratorially cupped around their lip glossed mouths, as if sharing a delicious secret. The thing you’ve been counting on, hoping against … Continue reading
Her school looks out over a giant park – the largest unbroken swath of green in the entire city. When I think of it, it’s as a vital, still living organ surrounded by collapsing, dead tissue – the seeping decay … Continue reading