It has occurred to me recently that blogging kind of peaked around 2015 and is no longer cool anymore, and instead everyone is tweeting and twitting and twerking and fracking and tik toking. Instead of …
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Blogs are the new Bangs
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Ball
Joe, quite innocently and suddenly, one morning: …Ball. Morrison: GET IN HERE. JOE SAID A WORD, HE SAID BALL. I run into the room like the rest of the house is on fire. Morrison, to …
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A Spider
I don’t claim to fully grasp the intricacies of the conflict between Israel and Palestine, but it does seem like when Palestine throws a rock over the fence, Israel drops an 800 pound bomb on …
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how to make friends
Joe had his first official playdate yesterday with Leo, another 8.5 month old (not pictured here, so as to not go willy nilly posting pictures of other people’s kids.) He’s seen other kids, but none …
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I fell down the stairs
The last few months I’ve been going through a real rite of passage as a new Mother, which is of course the Brandi Carlile Phase, in which all you do is listen to Brandi Carlile …
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More Steaks
MARK MY WORDS: when I’m old and gray and have created many TV shows and movies, and no longer care what people think of me, no longer burn the bulk of my calories trying to …
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Object Permanence
This is one of Joe’s Montesorri toys, designed to teach him Object Permanence: the Concept that things still exist even when you can’t see them. Mostly he uses it to teach himself another very important …
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Queen Mother
For Mother’s Day, Morrison updated this pic of Joe and I by Lake Tahoe to reflect me as my TRUE SELF: a medieval Queen, with great Knowledge and Secrets. For Mother’s Day, Joe woke up …
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Heavy Metal
It came to light a few months back that there are potentially unsafe levels of metal in many baby foods, including, this just in, the ‘organic’ puree pouches we’ve been giving Joe for the last …
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write what you Don’t Know
There is the adage write what you know and I’ve kind of lived and written by it. I’ve mined my life and my heart and my mind for stories, for things that have happened to …