The whole problem with this number, 30, I think, is that we have this imaginary list of things we are supposed to accomplish, and the closer the birthday gets, the less likely list completion begins to seem, and the more the panic sets in. I mean, I haven’t bought a house, or won an Oscar, or been on Conan, or… Read more →
Category: The Not-So-Trivial
Dudes: I totally went to the Idol Finale.
So, if you follow me on Twitter (which uh…if you don’t, I can wait while you go ahead and click over) then you may have noticed that I WAS LIVE AT THE AMERICAN IDOL FINALE AND AFTER PARTY LAST NIGHT BITCHESSSS. (To be clear, I’m not calling you guys bitches, I’m just using the slang to make myself feel bad… Read more →
It’s time.
Sorry, your browser does not support iframes. The internet is magic. A few months ago, the incredible Stacey ~ a beloved reader ~ got in touch with me about Kate and Mark Storm, close friends of hers whose sweet baby Getty had been diagnosed with SMA1; the number one genetic killer of infants under the age of two. Getty is only… Read more →
Purgeday Thursday: Inspiration.
That’s not just a clever ABC ad circa 1994. It’s a postcard that hangs on my office wall from one of those postcard stands outside restaurant bathrooms that my dear friend and longtime penpal (back when there were paper and pens and pals and things) Laura sent me to cheer me up over a decade ago. Eight years ago this… Read more →
Aftershocks.
My psychiatrist recently told me it could take a year or more to truly recover from postpartum depression. {Like, picture that scene from Good Will Hunting where Robin Williams is being all creepy intense with Matt Damon going “it’s not your fault” – it was kind of like that, but with more squirming uncomfortably and less crying and emotional man-hugs.} … Read more →
Ramblings from the Road
Do you guys read a lot of design blogs? Because I do. I am like a total freak for them. And after this weekend, I have about ten million more to add to my blogroll. (Okay, 400…whatever, it’s still a lot of blogs to read! And speaking of which…I think it’s probably time to update the BlogRoll I created my… Read more →
I carried a watermelon.
Me and this blog have been having a bit of a stand-off lately. (And by lately, I mean for going on about eleven months now.) It has a lot to do with the postpartum depression I haven’t really talked about, and the crippling, silencing shame I felt while lost in that abyss, but the way it’s manifested is totally weird… Read more →
Going Commando
Summer time is fast approaching, and for us hormonal nursing Mamas (am I the only one sweating like a hooker in church?) putting your baby under a nursing cover becomes…well…out of the question really, unless you were hoping for baked baby….which, I mean, although her chubby thighs do look tasty…I’m not. So my BabyBond nursing cover has been coming in… Read more →
Oh Happy Day.
I’ve been having a hard time lately. A hard time that is waiting to be discussed in another post that I’m letting percolate in my drafts folder for a while until I grow balls big and hairy enough to post it. But until then, let’s just say parenthood isn’t easy. Life really isn’t easy. And that can be a hard… Read more →
Yakedy Yak…don’t talk back.
Nothing brings me back to being 8 years old and running around barefoot in the backyard at a sunday BBQ like the Stand By Me soundtrack. I rediscovered it this morning, and it’s getting me through the hell that is Spring Cleaning today. While thoughts of the boys above pulling leeches out of their underoos still gives me the willies,… Read more →