When I realize that washing my hair and putting it up will take less time than braiding it in two …I say thank you, God When I decide to wear pantyhose for the first time in eons and they don’t run …I say thank you, God When I hand off my baby (who promptly begins…
life
Everyday Incongruence
We’re living in whirlwinds Sucking up airless moments Fleeting Gasp gasp gasping . We used the metal concert gates as stretchers for the injured for the deceased . She asks me what the red stuff is. I pretend not to know. Two year olds shouldn’t be able to identify someone else’s blood. . How was…
Shifts
It’s almost 5am and I’ve been awake for a couple of hours in what has felt like sacred time. I didn’t want to wake so early and certainly had no intention of staying awake. But after my 7-month-old began to cry and wasn’t settling down too quickly and after a trip to the bathroom, I…
What dreams are made of
The rain had begun to pour. My friend Daniela was teaching us (a medium sized group of people standing in the rain) about something and had to walk up a fairly steep hill in order to dodge the car traffic and not get soaking wet. Once up there, she had to come back down to…
Everything
It’s not a pending doom; I’m not that melodramatic. It is a change, however, and a big one that I know I can’t be perfectly prepared for. That’s part of the problem, really.
A Pregnant Silence
(Written a while back. I’m now 38 weeks.) The internal debate–do I write about myself or politics? Neither is easy but the former is more meaningful at the moment. Here we go. I’m pregnant. We didn’t do any big announcement this time around. Like every other time, we told our immediate family first then a…
Mushy Mummy Love
We heard her crying shortly after putting her to bed. At first we couldn’t quite understand what she was saying through her tears. Then I caught it. “Come wif me.” I volunteered to go. Usually my husband goes (and usually it’s some terrible time of the night/morning). He’ll lay on the floor by her bed until…