How I can waste so much time. This week has been grey and cloudy, someone in the house is withdrawing from nicotine (again) and I just CAN’T get in gear to get anything done. All the things that normally get me kick-started – a long walk, yoga, working on writing assignments, going to the gym [...]
Usually I try to write something coherent, where I have a theme for each post and I try to tell an anecdote or something that illustrates that theme. However, I regret to inform you all that pregnancy-brain has set in and I cannot coherently compose a coherent blog post about my personal experience to save [...]
I was standing in an enormous old ballroom with Tom and his dad, and as I looked around I noticed that the wallpaper was starting to peel off the walls. All around the edges, at the corners and baseboards, great sheets of paper were lifting off and curling up as if they’d been starched. This [...]
Wistules As in, “The wistules took me back to the days when we would cook coffee over the campstove, and drink it in the fresh morning mountain air.” It’s the perfect word for olfactory memory – I imagine particles of wistfulness wafting into one’s brain. Credit for this one goes to Tom, who came up [...]
writing is just thinking of one word after another and recording them onto some kind of medium, right? such a simple concept, and yet so complex. I am feeling placid. I am feeling placid today. I felt placid yesterday, but only after I got home. Am I confusing placid with fatigue? I was feeling so [...]
it seems that I have inadvertently killed the comment function on my page by trying to make it more spam-proof. Hopefully it won’t be too long before I get comments back up and running!! sorry about that folks… Edit: I fixed it! Just a bit of googling and GM Installation for Dummies required.
the starting gate (week 6): a hint of difference? (week 8): just imagining the bump (week 11): candy? what candy? (week 12): the infamous brown trousers (week 13): get me some maternity jeans already… (week 14): hello bump! (week 16):
today’s tantalizing craving: skor blizzard from dairy queen. It’s just not gonna happen but that doesn’t stop the drooling!
So, I’m just back from a two-day shopping trip in Dublin, and my clothes crisis is hereby declared solved! I did come back with a couple of cupcake-y things, including a stretchy blue sundress that is big and billowy, but it was so comfortable and cute. And I’m sure come July and August I’ll be [...]
