Writing the good read
Today there was a strange truck parked directly in front of, behind, and next to three “No Parking Any Time: Fire Lane” signs. Two men were in the empty lot next to where they parked. I heard the pling whoosh thunk of arrows hitting target. I’d never seen them before. Usually, the neighborhood uses that…
Mean Lady has needed some help with Mean Baby while Mr. Mean Lady is out of town on business for a few weeks. It’s been a gas for me since I’m stuck in the middle of parenting a teenage mutant on the verge of getting a driver’s license. It also helps that she’s a girl,…
I saw Darling Niece this week for the first time in about 9 months. She lives in Northern California and has a life that is dominated by one sport after another. She was in Portland with Coach Snarky Brother for the final softball tournament of the season, which coincided with me being in the same…
My mom came up last weekend to spend some quality time with me and Darling Son. Our relationship is, well, interesting. Since my Wasband made the decision to undergo gender reassignment surgery, Mom has been uninterested in being and unwilling to be in the same room with her. That means that next week, when Darling…
My Pilates instructor, known in these parts as The Mean Lady, is pregnant with her first child. It’s hard to watch her and not be brought back to my own pregnancy 15 years ago, to the excitement, the wonder, and also the fear, the nausea, and the panicked realization that I was no longer driving…
I’ve been accused many times of being a Mama Bear when it comes to my son. When it’s said, it is tossed at me as an insult. But I don’t take it that way. I stand a little taller. My son was diagnosed as mildly autistic right around the time he was three. At the…
I saw the movie Babies today. It’s a lovely film that looks at the first year or so of life of four babies, one born in Mongolia, one in Namibia, one in Japan, and one in San Francisco. That movie taught me a few things. Some may seem obvious, particularly to someone who has been…