A robin contemplates, still as a statue on the lawn. He regards the world long in profile and then turns and regards it a while facing me. Now he hops across the lawn, jerkily slowly, pausing often. This is me also in life right now. Contemplating. Hopping jerkily across deadlines but listening, thinking in between. […]
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First, the big news. For those of you who didn’t see this on social media already…I am expecting. Behold, my official announcement: Coming December 2023! Isn’t it odd how we say, “I am expecting.” Expecting what, I wonder? Expecting joy, certainly. Laughter, love, a playmate for Annalise. Expecting more writing interruptions, less sleep, less predictability
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One thing I love to observe in my daughter is her blooming and blossoming imagination. Where did she get it? I wonder. Who taught her to pretend things? When she was quite young–maybe a year or year and a half–she was eating Cheerios while listening to me read a story about dogs. And she took
Fullness of life. My child lies on her child-sized table watching a kids music video. Her eyes sparkle shine. A cardinal flashes past my window. Sun makes grass bright, a vibrant yellow green. I rarely let Annalise watch media on my phone…but on a whim this morning I found her animated children’s songs on You
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I once read a book about the five Chinese elements—fire, earth, water, wood, metal—and how they map onto human personalities. As a disclaimer, I don’t go in for the signs of the zodiac or predicting personality by birth year, etc. This book wasn’t that, but instead took the angle of using the elements to categorize
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