thematically fickle

(*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 [...]

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I’ve heard it said that “The Terrible Two’s” is a myth and that really, what’s terrible are the threes. Ruby won’t be three for another month but I see what’s ahead because ahead has already mowed me down. Sometime during the last week, my beautiful, darling daughter was snatched up and replaced by a person [...]

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I sat down to write this evening with lots to say. I was going to write about the three weddings we’ve attended in the past four weeks and my insights into what was fantastic about two of them and what was completely, utterly, bone achingly wrong about the other, which was every-last-thing, including the fact [...]

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There are days in my life, and thankfully they are relatively rare, when I feel as though I’ve never before left the house with my child. When I seem to be a complete novice at parenting in particular and human functioning in general. I walk out the door with purpose in my gaze looking in [...]

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Well, we made it home from our whirlwind, adventurous, rain drenched, fun but not-at-all-restful weekend in Honolulu where Ruby was the Best Baby Ever, only to have her come down with a nasty cold. It’s probably karma for us, since we were so vociferous with pride at her exemplary behavior. At any rate, I blame [...]

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