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Ok fine. I’m not getting married. I’m getting bummed. In addition to not having a sidekick to my life I also don’t have all the COOL STUFF that a person gets when they find and marry their side kick. I routinely discover, when asking a friend about a cool gadget or appliance that it was [...]
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At the end of this summer my blog will turn seven years old. As of today there are just over one thousand and six hundred posts that I have shared with you. In the darkest posts I have shared my depression, my fertility problems, my caregiver’s fatigue, my anxieties, my fears, my insecurities and feelings [...]
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I needed to buy a dress recently. Something nice. Something that I would wear actual shoes with. Something that would be fancy and (gasp) feminine. I was feeling kind of snazzy at the big box retail store. And by snazzy I mean that I suddenly could imagine myself in a dress. In several dresses. I [...]
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I have recently been answering some questions for people about things that I seem to be a bit of an “expert” on. Mostly the questions center around either becoming or being a single mother. First I was approached by a woman who has a really cool site that runs a feature called “true story” once [...]
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I love taking photographs. I love capturing beautiful moments of my beautiful friends. I do NOT like to have my own photo taken because, clearly, I have some issues of esteem and all that stuffs. I also am a control freak. Also part three? (cue the Carly Simon song) Nobody does it better. If a [...]
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It’s still such a relatively new thing, this leaving of the house thing. This being without a child for hours thing. There is now this new space in my week where I have an entirely new and different identity. I am now, happily, becoming a bit of a regular at the coffee shop a mile [...]
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Before you think this post involves actual sex I will put you out of your misery at once and tell you that it does not. So you can stop making that face. Sometime in the mid 1980′s the New Year’s Eve ritual of eating cheese fondue and watching movies on the Betamax began. Being from [...]
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A few weeks ago I went to a party and there was a professional photographer there. A few days after the party the organizers started tweeting a few photographs as a teaser. The images were beautiful. People that I had stood around and talked to had been captured perfectly: soft, glowing, and still authentically the [...]
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The other day I had this impulse to look at W’s sperm donor’s profile. Part of it is that W is getting older and as he becomes himself I marvel at the discovery and am naturally curious about that age old nature vs nurture debate. I know that much of who W is has nothing [...]
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