Second trimester
1. After hearing me discuss the Olympics on the phone last Friday, Charlotte asked me what “fuh-nastics” are. I thought for a moment about how to put gymnastics into terms a three-year-old might understand. “Well,” I said. “People dress →MORE...


We’re a mile into the canyon. Trees hang thick and green over the trail. Speckles of sunlight dance along the ground. A bird to our left is releasing a piercing cry, single loud chirps over and over again. We’re standing in →MORE...


Jul 20, 2012
“How do you want to celebrate your birthday tomorrow?” I asked her. “Maybe swinging,” she said. Donald built and hung a tree swing in our backyard a few months ago. Nearly everything about toddlers is perfectly lovely – the phrases they →MORE...


Jul 02, 2012
Dear Baby, Your occupation of my womb closes out its twenty-second week today. It has been a momentous week for you and me. This is the week that I really started to fall head-over-heels, crazy, irrevocably in love with you. See →MORE...


The antibiotics that I was prescribed on Tuesday night kicked in within the first twenty-four hours. I still have mild discomfort, which I suppose means that the bladder infection is still being fought off, but overall I feel much better. Normal →MORE...

