Monthly Archives: July 2009

Presently, I Shall Embrace the Present 12

This quote from Kurt Vonnegut got me thinking. Much has changed for me in the past year or so. I don’t live in the past reliving bittersweet memories the way I used to. Oh, I visit the past from time to time, but it has grown blurrier. Fuzzy. I’ve let [...]

Spoiler Alert – The Ultrasound Went Well! 22

Okay, so the big flash of pink totally gives the answer away, but at least having tacked “Spoiler Alert” onto the title I can kinda sorta pretend I was being sensitive to whatever percentage of you might want to be surprised.

Yay!

I’m sure I’ll babble on about how it feels to know we’re having another girl [...]

I Wish I May, I Wish I Might… 19

My life seems bound up in wishing lately. Wishing that the ultrasound tomorrow will yield the gender information we’re getting increasingly eager to find out. Wishing that the current heat wave would wave off somewhere and stop with its incapacitating effects already. Wishing to find the energy in the muddle of heat [...]

Judge ye not? 27

Once upon a time ago I was on my way to a picnic. Instead of keenly anticipating a relaxing afternoon of food and fun, I was rehearsing conversations in my head. This is something I do often, being of a neurotic temperament and all, but the tendency crops up even more often when [...]