Me, before I had a daughter: It’s so stupid how we put bows on baby girls heads! As if we’re terrified that someone might mistake them for a boy, as if that were a big …
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Bows
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play with cars
All Joe really ever wants to do is play with cars, and you’d be surprised (or Not?) how quickly you run out of imaginary car content and scenarios. They can only stop at so many …
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life is bending down
When it hurts to bend down you realize that’s what life is, picking things off the ground, or at least parenting, which is equal parts love, frustration, fatigue, chicken nuggets, and picking chicken nuggets off …
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The power of Not
Joe’s new favorite word is Not, which is an extension of No but enables you to challenge reality which is an important if not annoying skill for a toddler. Joe, it’s night time, it’s time …
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an award
It feels fitting that we’re going to put this little girl who’s coming in EIGHT WEEKS, WHAT? in my office, forcing me to re-think, organize and move all of the work related crap I have …
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The Gamut
Since this is probably, theoretically, hopefully? My last time being pregnant I’m paying extra special attention to my insane thoughts and fulling surfing the waves of each rapidly shifting and conflicting emotion. My new favorite …
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January 2nd
My New Year’s resolution this year is to lower my expectations, which Morrison says sounds depressing, so we might also say simply, to try and do Less. So it’s totally, completely fine that the Christmas …
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A Year
2022! A year of making, I made 2 musicals and .75 of a person. Both musicals, which I love like children, were what one might call critically acclaimed, and when does that happen?! If never …
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His Dreams
I’m at the point where it hurts to both lift Joe, and also sit with him, and also bend down to his level, so he’s at the point where he’s kind of given up on …
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A girraft
I have much domestic news to report regarding a very merry Christmas, lumbar pain and a five hour flight to our long awaited babymoon, but I’m really going to give myself the present of BEING …