i’m proud to be pregnant. not in an anti-abortion kind of way but in a… dagnabit, if i can suffer nausea and bloating and weight gain all because something the size of a kidney bean is inside of me then i will gladly tuck in my shirt and showcase my belly (to me and my…
Author: wordhabit
week 7
nausea. if i could pay someone a year’s wage to make it go away, i’d find that money somewhere. that almost reflects how much i hate my current state. it’s so bad that if i haven’t felt nauseous for a while and then just THINK about it, i get nauseous. i’m telling you…i couldn’t dream…
week 6
parasite now has limb buds that will grow into shoulders-arms-hands-fingers and thighs-legs-feet-toes. it’s growing 1 millimeter ever day. i like the fact that its heartbeat can be heard. can’t wait to hear it! that’s so weird/cool/incredible. oh, and there’s also an umbilical chord. the little leach is about to suck up all my goodness. well,…
week 5
i’m pregnant. oh boy/girl! what strange parasite lingers softly? it has a brain and a spinal cord, both still developing, and a heart that’s already formed. i don’t care how much someone tells you about pregnancy in high school biology, nothing sounds so wonderful until it’s about the tiny thing inside you. inside me. it’s growing….
Lost
It’s how I feel. I feel compelled to talk to my friend’s mom who just lost her husband and my own blood family and yet I don’t know what I’d say and I feel as though I should know. After all, I’m a pastor, right? I have words. I’m supposed to have words. But really,…
Dr. Warren, thank you…
Yes, you wanted us to learn the importance of “The House on Mango Street” and the themes of Richard Wright but it mattered even more that we included a few sentences of appreciation to anyone who’d helped us complete our papers. Saying thank you to my friend in Lamson Hall Room 234 for letting me…
topics i want to write about
Paul…the apostle miracles religious expectations the swinging of hips how to be saviour following incompetence process value judgements Jesus: true or false atheism does Jesus find us or do we find him and is that mere semantics?