Abigail has had a fever for the past two days. 102. Poor thing just wants to breathe on me and use my face as a tissue. So we’re sick, together, again. Her more than me. In writing the pilot of…
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when you wake up naked
December 16, 2008
What do you do when each time you go in to wake your daughter up from a nap, she’s already standing, naked, holding her own feces? You know, aside from running the bath water and putting your house up on…
happy birthday!
December 7, 2008
Let them eat cake! A Magnolia Bakery cake, at that. My mother and I baked the beans a classic Magnolia vanilla bean birthday cake with cream cheese frosting, then I decorated the sucker like a May Day pole, because…
scheduled days in so many ways
November 7, 2008
This is a list more for me than anyone else. It’s a list that helps me punch things into order. Makes me feel like a good mother, even on days when the very last thing I want to do is…
create your own muppet
November 7, 2008
I am hoping to go to the movies today. Get there at the first showing and stay there until about 1pm, given that I have a conference call at 2pm, when the work will start all over again. I’m still…
gossip in the grain
October 28, 2008
My life has changed–not so much that it’s unrecognizable, even if I am now in Texas, where they let us rock the vote early (which I just did). But it’s changed. I no longer find time to buy music CDs.…
toddlers in toyland: that’s one to grow on
October 21, 2008
I am all over the place–not just my clothes pulled from a suitcase, littering my closet floors, or the weave of words in this post, or even my travel schedule, or hair. I’m a blur of thoughts and to-do lists,…
gender similarities: separate but equal
August 27, 2008
Having boy/girl twins, I have the opportunity to see how a boy and girl—or rather this particular boy and tater tot—are developing, and what if anything, their gender preferences are. Each of them, could of course be prototypical or atypical,…










December 18, 2008
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