Sometimes we just have to let things go.  C&D helped me realize that.  Without C&D, I could work on a project as long as I wanted.  Even better, I could leave my little project-pieces all over the living room floor until I got back to them after dinner, after Friday, or after I started losing [...]

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Resting is a lonely thing to do.  Tried to stay upstairs with C&D and Matt, but my awareness of all my body parts started blinking in and out, like the chandelier with that one wonkly light bulb that flickers on and off at random.
Too tired to use computer, too, but maybe later.  No, they’re not [...]

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cry.  I just might.
After a busy weekend of grandparent guests, I am sitting in the dark, my ears ringing.  We are two hours past naptime.  Carmen and David, exhausted from the weekend, the time change, and their own internal forces of chaos, are disassembling the upstairs, naked. 
The three of us swing between giddy and [...]

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Too tired to write.  The more fun C&D are, the more they wear me out.  They’ve been fun lately.
Next Wednesday they turn three. 

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The moon is smiling at me right now. 
More about today in this space later.  Right now it is time to get ready to sleep.

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when I woke up from a nap with David and couldn’t see, like I was underwater. I felt dizzy, the world fuzzy and soft and without an up and down, north and south. That’s how this year began.

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that a year ago today, Matt and I drove over to Joshua’s Native Plants to look at some plants (of course), and then on the way home had an argument because . . . well, I don’t remember, entirely.  It was something about me wanting all kinds of different shrubs, of a certain, very full [...]

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