I think the longer you’ve been married, the further your anniversary day gets from anything moderately celebratory. A scene from this morning: Husband: Did you feed the cat? Wife: No, I’m getting Joe his waffle …
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Happy anniversary
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together
These two have uprooted their lives for a few weeks to be with me in Chicago so I can sneak moments with them and hear Joe shriek for his waffle in the morning. It hasn’t …
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a fine whine
Me, when encountering travel stress (cancelled flights and missed connections with a toddler): whine, worry, freak out, assume the worst. Morrison: consume as much red wine as your constitution allows, que sera sera, let go …
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a piece
Morrison, taking us all to husband school this morning. Me, looking at the picture that popped up in my memoryphone this morning, from my cousin’s wedding a few years back: Damn. I was a total …
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Let’s Talk
Behold! Our engagement pictures from seven years ago, that Facebook just reminded me of! I don’t so much look like this anymore. Oh, bangs. Maybe I could fashion those jeans into an apocalypse necklace? (STATION …
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I hear you
A fun game to play with your spouse when you’re both exhausted because the baby keeps waking up at 5 AM, is to spend some time searching for ear plugs which takes a while because …
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a thought that I thought
* poem by Nayyirah Waheed, the most ‘famous poet on Instagram’ which is now a thing* Joe hasn’t been sleeping great as of late, had a cold that he gave to us, so Morrison and …
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Mom and Dad’s Room
Remember how when you’re little, there is Mom and Dad’s room, and the bed is as big as the World, it’s too high for you to crawl onto so you must be lifted onto it, …
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10.22.16
What else can I say about that day that hasn’t already been said? I’ll love this day forever…… Long past when we’re dead.
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DO YOU HAVE A BANDANA, THO?
There is of course fear over the spread of the corona virus (which still only kills 3% of those it infects but of course this is how ppl casually talk about diseases that CAUSE THE …