Halloweeniac
Happy Halloween! I love Halloween. It’s one of the most enthusiastic holidays, and I love enthusiasm. I love costumes, and kids in costumes, and clever adults, and I also of course love pumpkins — and...
View Articlewhat people say when you’re pregnant
Lots of people have lots of things to say when you are pregnant. So far, I think I’ve been really lucky. No one has scolded me for drinking coffee (it’s decaf anyhow) and on the rare occasion where...
View ArticlePlateau?
Have we talked about how big the baby is? And as the vessel, how big I am? We were told at the dr. that we are “a week ahead,” meaning . . . what? That the baby is out of the average range for this...
View ArticleI’ve Buried the Lead: You May Skip to Paragraph Four.
Paragraph Two: Big things have been happening. And they're good ones, mostly!
View ArticleMy Cup Runneth Over, Also, I Need to Empty My Cup
I overheard my husband say to our son: "Look, Mommy's like a pitcher for the Phillies!" I'm not even sure that baseball players dip anymore, but I am unfortunately keeping the tradition of public...
View ArticleI Can’t Stop Writing Prilosec Commercials
Prilosec is a little mauve pill that I, and many of my fellow Americans, take first thing in the morning. It makes me want to speak rhetorically in way that few other things do. Why? It shuts down...
View ArticleHola Ivy! Wherein I Introduce My *Daughter*
This post, being late and brief, will not capture nearly all of the awe and coziness and exhaustion and delight and fear and everything else that we feel when we consider our new and lovely and velvety...
View ArticleAnd Now, A Pep Talk for the Grossly Pregnant, and I Mean Grossly
Did you see that movie where the super athletic guy trapped down in a cave drinks his own pee and eventually saws off his hand or is it his arm in order to escape? That was a reasonably accurate...
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