November 12, 2011

when memories fade, we’ve got each other

we fell on hard times this isn’t the ideal we’re miles from home, doing the best that we can I wont do this without you wont do this without you so take heart ’cause you know that you have mine Six years ago, we became husband and wife. I’ll be writing a post about this [...]

November 8, 2011

the one about that time I had that thing removed so that I could once again eat pizza

Noah and the kids drove me to the hospital very early yesterday morning so I could have my gallbladderectomy. Liliana, upon learning that we were going to a hospital, asked, “Are we going to cut a baby out of my tummy?” Noah took yesterday, today, and tomorrow off so that he could be with the [...]

November 2, 2011

life list

My friend Schmutzie wrote a life list the other day. I loved many items on her list, but I told her I would have loved to help her with her #43 – witnessing and photodocumenting a birth. Did I want a delivery room full of people? HECK NO. But, my mom witnessed and photographed immediately [...]

July 21, 2011

genetics

My aunt Jane and cousin Chloe sent me this photo a week or two ago. (Thanks ladies!) It’s my mom and me in 1983. I can see the resemblance in the dopey slack-jawed expression.

July 1, 2011

of gallbladders and summer

So. Sunday night. Or was it Monday morning? Midnight. I wake up with that chest pain again, except this time it’s worse. So much worse. I was working on a whole post about the incident, but I got sick of it, so here’s the short version: I was writing on the couch in uncontrollable pain [...]