(*Slightly re-vamped and completely regurgitated from a previous blog post. To my very kind and faithful readers—all my you-go-girl!ers and even to my I-read-your-blog-because-I-love-to-hate-youers— my apologies for being redundant.)
I don’t know what got into me with Ruby’s birthday festivities this year, but I put it in my head that I had to perform like a [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Love'
Birth control, Part CXXIV: I suffer so that you don’t have to
July 10th, 2008 · 16 Comments
Tags: Backwards and In High Heels · Family · Love · Marriage · Parenting · The Column · Therapy Fund (Parenting Failures) · Writing
The Princess and the Pea
July 9th, 2008 · 13 Comments
Ruby called my name at 3 o’clock this morning. She didn’t sound too distressed but I went to her anyway because she was longing and because I’m trained like that. I shuffled down the hall to her room without opening my eyes since keeping them closed for as long as possible when meeting her late-night [...]
Tags: Family · Love · Parenting · WTF
The Men-Are-From-Venus thing is total crap
July 2nd, 2008 · 5 Comments
Did you know that the hypothalmus regulates (among other things) breathing and sexual satisfaction? Maybe that’s why, even when my man has a horrendous cold that causes fatigue, a sore throat and congestion so severe that breathing is difficult even when he’s laying perfectly motionless, he still wants to “bury his face in [my] ass.” [...]
Tags: Bits & Pieces · Life · Love · Marriage · Womanity
Family day
July 1st, 2008 · 11 Comments
Three years ago today, we flew to Chicago to meet Ruby. The delayed flight certainly added to our anticipation and also, the agony of our wait. Out of the (mere) 7 months that our adoption process took before our match, it was this last 36 hours before we held our daughter that were the most [...]
Tags: Adoption · Family · Life · Love · Marriage · Parenting · Photography · Politics · Writing
It’s been three years already?
June 23rd, 2008 · 18 Comments
Tags: Family · Life · Love · Parenting · Photography · Politics · The Column