How things have changed
Yesterday afternoon it poured. Thunder rumbled for a over an hour, and later, everything was beautifully drenched and glistening. I took Bean out after his nap. We walked around our small Connecticut yard, taking one last look before our move tomorrow, at the garden beds DH and I dug last spring, now filled with snap [...]
She eats catnip and then acts drunk
The Process Begins–Written June 11
The night is frenetic with sounds. Jazz on the street, neon rushing up. I want to dissolve and pour myself around my son like a protective coating covering his little hands, his delicate eyelids with veins like a network of rivers, lashes delicate like a forest of ferns.
We are moving. Everything in my life [...]
My Merry Month of May In Bullet Points
* Put our house on the market two weeks ago & get 6 offers. Navigate the process of a bidding war & accept an offer; then realize we’ll very shortly have no place to live.
* Pack 3.5 month old Bean into car and make our way to our new city (totally last minute–after discovering [...]
Taken in traffic
Traffic
Traffic in the tri-state area is like an ant hill that just got rained on. Unlike the autobahn in Germany, in the US everyone feels like it’s okay to drive any speed they want in ALL THREE LANES. The idea of a left lane for passing is completely unheard of.
Over the weekend we had [...]
Cowboys Are My Weakness, by Pam Houston
I’m hoping to go to a Literary Workshop with several authors, including Pam Houston at the end of July, so I figured I’d pick up a couple of her books. COWBOYS is sharp, delectable, and silly. It rings true, for women at least. (Note to boys: when I read sections aloud to my husband that [...]
Last June
Eating a dry toasted round of pita bread and peppermint tea, I try to quell the queasiness I feel. This is now my life, this pregnancy, and I feel new, and vulnerable and strange. I haven’t yet reached a point of feeling wellness. I find myself imagining the first cave people, in a world full [...]