Monthly Archives: May 2009

Self-Diagnosing Via the Internet is BAD 25

Even worse, is diagnosing your children that way. I am having quite the crummy-mummy moment this morning.
Emma has had an Adam’s Apple-esque lump on her throat for quite some time now. According to various online articles, such lumps are enlarged vocal chords that the child has yet to grow into. Given Emma’s [...]

I Need Help 31

Well, I mean, yes, obviously of course . . . but I mean in a very specific way.
My life has no structure. There. I admitted it. Have fun feeling all superior now. I am the wibbly-wobbly jelly-fish type who makes everyone else look all strong and vertebrae-ish. I’m slowly beginning [...]

The Sweet Struggle 23

I didn’t think it would be easy. I have my issues with not thinking things through, but this was something I thought I had pretty well figured. Writing a book was going to be hard work. When I was ten years old and writing simple stories about fairies or mermaids, or little [...]

If I Had it All to do Over Again… 11

…I’d still choose you.
Sometimes, I get caught up in whimsy, swept away by the tantalizing lure of the What If? I can see the parting of the ways. The simple choice that would have shifted me just the slightest bit this way or that. We might never have met. I might [...]