groping darkly through the past

Yesterday I spent the better part of ten minutes panicking that the ignition in my car was busted. With the key stuck inside. It had been acting funny lately, sometimes a little sticky to start, so when the key got really stuck I assumed it’s life was over and I’d have to spend hundreds of [...]

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the application of a fork

It’s a fact that children cannot live on starch alone. My daughter, however, has not received the memo — in fact, I’d say she’s blocked it altogether. Although she at least loves her vegetables and fruits, she doesn’t go in so much for the proteins, particularly the kind that can easily be packed in [...]

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pass the rosy wine

I’ve never made a cherry pie. I’ve never made a gluten-free pie. And I’ve never made a pie with a lattice.
So when my husband mentioned he was craving pie, and there were several solid quarts of pitted cherries in the freezer, I thought there was nothing for it but to cowgirl up and get [...]

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the superlative degree of comparison

Shriekeuse awoke Sunday morning earlier than Moses, shaking and muttering about paint coming alive, and when I worriedly poked her with my finger, sizzled audibly. By Monday she was still feverish and hallucinating so in to the doctor we went. Turns out she’s got some kind of infection and pending test results has been ordered [...]

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rolled upon by the lonely feelings

If April is the cruelest month, then June is just one big, unforgiving clusterfuck. I won’t whine too much here, because it’s over and we survived and really, how fascinating can delayed flights and illness and rain actually be anyway? When we perish of the swine flu which I am certain has plagued us lo [...]

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press of life

Good gods, I let much more time lapse than I meant to since the last post. I blame drama and dithering, in equal parts. Désolée!
The breast lump turned out to be “normal fibrous tissue” which is nice, because it means all that fiber in my diet was actually going somewhere after all (though I’d [...]

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as circles do in water

It’s been that kind of day. A couple of freelance opportunities rejected, another couple came back with painful and time-consuming revisions, the doctor found a lump in my breast. I’ve been wading through the thick dreariness of it, doing laundry and sending emails, trying not to think of our bank account hovering just above zero [...]

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