On 1/28, my magic little niece, Djuna Blue, arrived in the world like a carefully planned thought, a dollop of fresh cream, or maybe fairy bird queen, or all of it. I truly see something …
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Djuna Blue
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PASSION
And now, a glimpse into a pandemic quarantine disrupted by baby sleep marriage between an actor and a writer. The writer, wistfully, after watching an episode of TV in which a marriage is on the …
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I resolve
Morrison took these pictures of me after our New Year’s eve dinner the other night. YES, we got dressed up to go downstairs and play board games over Zoom because Joe had just pooped on …
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new old things
The other day I said to Morrison, this year I want one hundred presents under the tree. I want the presents to cascade from the tree into other rooms like we’ve suffered a terrible leak …
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A Blessing
I am VERY LUCKY that I have a husband that wants to and is able to be an equal participant in raising (ie: desperately, moment to moment, trying to understand and the keeping alive of) …
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A MAN.
Today, on feelings I did not anticipate: I have a crush on my son. Like before bed I lie awake looking at pictures of him, he gives me butterflies, I miss him when he’s in …
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how to walk
My greatest fears used to be very bad reviews, plummeting to my death in a plane crash, or hurting the feelings of someone I love, but now at the very top of the list is …
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why I’m crying
Apparently (definitely) after you give birth, all of the estrogen and progesterone that have been making you crazy throughout pregnancy, making you sob over tiny eggplants at the grocery store, these hormones abruptly PLUMMET, but …
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Dad Brain, Forever
ATTN ALL: THIS MAN IS AMAZING (the big one, tho please note, the smaller version has also been proving himself to be pretty great.) The hospital was a blur, there were green beans? We cried, …
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The Wizard’s Wife
For a few months during lockdown, every Saturday, Morrison led a group of our friends’ kids through WIZARD SCHOOL, a part learning part D&D zoom adventure, in which the kids solved puzzles and were treated …