I spent the better part of an hour yesterday talking Bu into the perfect Mother’s Day gift: a morning wandering around the East End Yard Sale. (The hipper side of town, i.e. the one I do not live in, has a huge yard sale the day before Mother’s Day every year. It is teh awesome.) [...]
Category Archives: family
the primal scream
April 12, 2008 – 11:27 am
I tell this story because even though it isn’t mine to tell, I inherited it. I carry it for her like a flame she handed to me. It’s a hateful story but the sharing of it is loving and beautiful. Silence is what is ugly. Speaking truths is never anything but an act of love [...]
time and blood
April 8, 2008 – 7:00 pm
(mom)
I’m feeling you so vividly right now. The spring is our time, the two of us wild and stoned in the forest clearing. Aries and laughing and twin skirts blowing in the breeze, twin souls like Demeter and Persephone- firmly, solidly mother/daughter too. The sisterhood never took precedence over your wings holding me and your [...]
baby free- what to do?
March 26, 2008 – 1:22 pm
The grandies have their grandson for the overnight, so they want to have the Boo* sleep-over too. I’m so OK with that I just can’t even describe my contentedness. Remember when she was under one and I would have a panic attack if she spent the night with them? Yeah. Things are different at 22 [...]
eulogy for pac man
March 20, 2008 – 12:01 am
I’m sad to hear, but relieved you passed on in your sleep. Assuming you had no pain then. I hope there are sex, great food, and wild drugs in your afterlife. Alternately, I wish you reincarnation as a hot chick, because I think you’d fancy that. The last time I saw you was mom’s memorial [...]
on being mentally exhausted and also, a mother. and a wannabe bitch.
March 8, 2008 – 4:10 pm
OMG does this make me a post-post-feminist?
I grabbed Bitch off my shelf of books I have had forfreakingever but haven’t read. I’m like 3 pages into the introduction and I’m seriously annoyed that every single example Elizsabeth Wurtzel has given of bad-girl-ness involves women engaged in sexy badness, being the bad girl of men’s wet [...]
grandma
February 21, 2008 – 10:22 pm
I’m really raw and scattered and all over the place. So.
Aunt Pea just called to tell me they took Grandma straight to the nursing home from the hospital. An ambulance moved her apparently. I’m confused; the plan was to take her tomorrow.
Pea is hysterical but didn’t want to talk. I’m upset too… I called and [...]
wood is love
January 2, 2008 – 6:40 pm
We are enthralled with our woodburning stove. It’s an insert in the fireplace. Been here since Bu’s Granny and Pa built this room onto the house*. We went through a phase the year before we conceived when Bu was loving to chop wood and build fires but then the computer equipment was there in that [...]
obligatory new year’s post
January 1, 2008 – 11:39 pm
I don’t do resolutions… technically. Because there is too much negative energy in the ‘Verse expecting them to be broken. Buuut…
We had an impromptu ritual last night ending at midnight, wherein we burned little papers with descriptions of the bad stuff we were praying to banish.
weight
bad food
anxiety
poverty
night-time nummins, with scribbles on the paper by the baby
etc.
And [...]
interesting: nasal congestion
December 26, 2007 – 1:23 pm
…is the leading cause of undereye circles. The culprit isn’t, as I believed until 30 seconds ago, nursing a toddler. I’m not super vain, but I like to be on my prettier scale when there’s a lot of visiting and photo snapping happening. This means that I have been plastering makeup under my eyes the past few days. [...]
