a pandemic purchase report card
As we head into 2021, my household has been preparing for an intentional reset of our purchasing habits and attitudes with a “buy (almost) nothing” year. If you are interested, you can read more about that over here. But, in the mean time, I’ve been reflecting on some of my pandemic purchases and thinking about…
Two Sentence Book Reviews: Things I’ve put in my eyeholes in 2020
I always enjoy getting to peek at other people’s reading lists, culling from them what I too might enjoy or learning what to cross off of my own “to read” list based on their reviews. While this won’t go down as my most intellectually rigorous reading year (PANDEMIC), here are some things I have put…
It is not inchoate, or my misbehaving brain
I experience anxiety in a deeply physical way, feeling it grip my heart and make my blood run cold with a shocking literalness. It is consuming, when it is like that. When it is, I should say, like this. When I am down the hole, I am very down the hole. I wondered today about…
Palpable love, or snuggy buggy
I sometimes want to go get my baby up in the middle of night just because I miss him. I want to go in his room, pick him up out of his crib, and rock with him — longing to feel his warm weight against me. I know that this is nutbuckets. I know that…
How I gave birth in a little black dress
For all the time I spent during pregnancy thinking about all the terrible things that could go wrong — and I spent a lot of time thinking about such things — I spent very little time thinking about actually giving birth. And if I spent little time thinking about the birth process, I spent even…
And Then We Fell In Love
I don’t remember precisely when I met Phil. It was not love at first sight and there was no amazing meet cute for us. But, while the exact moment has been lost to history, I do know that it was 2011 during the Occupy protests and that it undoubtedly occurred at the back of a…
Babyfoot foot peels, a stage by stage break down
I had never heard of a foot peel until someone told me about their experience, skin sloughing off their feet in sheets. SHEETS. That’s what got me, really. That it came off in sheets. What does that even look like, I wondered? I asked in the internet, and the internet did not disappoint. With that…
“34 planned pregnancy huge mistake?”
I wrote the below in 2017 after my first miscarriage. It seems a fitting place to start, as it was that first pregnancy that sparked the creation of this blog and its name, even if it sat dormant for years after. I have edited slightly for clarity and clean-up, but it is mostly as it…
Oh hello there.
If you have found yourself here, we probably know each other. Maybe you like me so you gave the link a click over at the ol’ Facebooks or Tweeters. Or maybe you *don’t* like me so you gave the link a click, just to do a little spite reading? No judgement, I spite read too!…
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