My little girl is two years old. Two years have passed in a blink, and yet it feels like Abigail has been with us forever. Our lives are so markedly different from what they were two or three years ago, and despite the challenges, sacrifices, and sleep deprivation, the joys and deep, heart-wringing [...]
When one has a blog that is open to the entire internet, one sometimes has occasion to pause at the idea of writing about certain topics. There are things and events and people that I studiously and intently avoid writing about, because I value the placement of my head atop my neck. And there are other things I [...]
Rather than whine about how much work I’m doing on my thesis (and boy can I bellyache about the work and the writing and the time and the torture of pecking out sentence after sentence praying it all makes sense and my advisor loves it and I can eventually finish and stop having this hang over [...]
A conversation from a few nights ago: Me: So, I have to tell you about what Abigail did this evening before bed. It was pretty funny. Erik: Okay…. Me: Because she’s had such a wicked diaper rash, I thought I would let her run around without a diaper for a bit before her bath tonight. Erik: Okay…. [...]
