I’m revisiting something old this week, for reasons that’ll become clear by the end of the piece. I started this at the same time as Remembering Tiamat, when Rebecca was eight months old, and all the time references are to summer of last year: I had a conversation stuck in my head all last month, …
Monthly Archives: April 2011
Just Like Magic (3)
One Monday morning at the end of January, I was standing at the new espresso machine making myself a cappuccino, when Rebecca came up behind me. She was holding a moka pot and a can of shaving cream, and broke into a huge grin when I saw what she had: Coffee with foam! Rebecca enjoyed …
I’m not tired, I’m just tired of you (Sleep Like A Baby #5)
I lost my momentum on the “How to Sleep Like a Baby” series when sleep turned into a problem for me again. It takes some chutzpah to post sleep advice when you’ve still got only one kid and (God willing) many more years of childrearing for things to go wrong in. It’s probably clear from …
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Bargaining With Happiness: The Suck Stops Here
Sometimes I make a bargain with my life: I won’t be happy unless I’m happy with our workload distribution, with my day-to-day opportunities, with how I got here, with my level of control. As if I could only allow myself to be happy when I look out and judge everything good. As if I were …
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