The other night, this old picture popped up in the weird ‘here are you picture memories’ phone thing. It’s from a 2015 trip to Palm Springs with my forever friend Elizabeth (WHO IS STILL THIS …
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The Painting and the Statue
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while you were Breathing
Me, to Morrison: does it seem like Joe is breathing weird? Morrison: Weird Like, how? Me: I don’t know, like, fast? (Meanwhile, Joe Breathes. We watch, obsessively.) Morrison: I can’t tell. Lemmee see. (He puts …
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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 Rock Bottom
Our Zoom baby class teacher told us that once we had Joe, once he came out ready to party at 4 AM, we would discover what she called a New Rock Bottom. Like, whereas before …
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tense
Yesterday while probably only halfway wearing pants, trying to justify my frustration with him the previous day, I explained to Morrison I was just having a bad day tomorrow! So basically it was probably a …
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not lost on me
October is national pregnancy and infant loss awareness month, and it’s not lost on me that this time last year, we’d just had our second failed IVF transfer and I screamed in a parking lot …
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Parent Words
One day you’re an adult with a master’s degree, you live in a house that you bought and you read Op-eds and take calls from your Lawyer, and the next day you’re a Parent and …
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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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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, …