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Archive for March 2007

when the first cup of coffee tastes like washing up

BECAUSE SOMEONE ASKED Everything I do as a parent is improv and half-assed and accidental, and I would like to type something here like “and yet it all works out” but I guess time will have to be the judge of that. Here's hoping, either despite or because of my mothering, that Nora (a) stays […]

see if I care

CARNIVAL OF INANITY 1. On the back of my teabag wrapper: There is a garden overlooking the Yangtze River gorge where an elderly man contemplates his life while sipping a cup of Green Ginger. Perhaps you would like to join him. Okay, but how long is he going to be there because I'm in Chicago […]

a thousand little worms will help me celebrate

MISHMASH FRIDAY 1. Listen up bitches because I am ON the island. No wait, I OWN the island. I AM the island. One time I got so drunk a palm tree grew on me. Something like that. Anyway, I love this. 2. Also this. It resulted in nearly a full hour of on-and-off giggling in […]

I call do-over

Nora is sick with the same viral crap that a normal kid would probably have on and off all winter, but for which I have no frame of reference because Nora is almost never sick. Oh sure, I have written about Nora being “sick” here and there, but what I usually meant by that was […]