Writing | Living Imperfection

January 22, 2019February 18, 2019

Till There Was You: Nostalgia & Mortality

I have a six-month-old. Well, six and a half, as of this writing. As her mother, I can tell you she is gorgeous and incredibly charming and we waited so long for her. I adore looking at her. It’s hard to tear my eyes away from her. It took three years to get her to stick and now that she’s here, she is growing so fast. Just so damn fast. I don’t remember my son growing so fast, although I’m sure he did. But I am older now, so perhaps my perceptions have changed.

When I look at my daughter, I think about my own mortality. I was once a baby like her – not nearly as mind-blowingly beautiful and sweet – all head and cheeks and eyes, everything round and bulging. That was so long ago, but in the blink of an eye, she could be having the same thoughts about her own child.

January 21, 2019January 21, 2019

White People, We Must Cut the Shit Right Now

Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day – or as my son called him last year when he was learning about him in Pre-K, “King Martin Luth Jr.” I was home with my six year old and six month old all day. This afternoon we went for a walk and my son rode his bike. On our way back home, in our very own street, one house was flying a brand new confederate flag.

January 7, 2019January 7, 2019

New Year – I’m Quitting Fear

It’s a new year – new-ish, anyway. There’s a new, female-er, progressive-er, more representative congress, thank gods! New Mueller indictments are coming down the pipe. It’s a six-foot sewer pipe. Lewis CK is digging himself a deeper darker hole to crawl into and rot than we ever thought possible, and millions of women in India are standing up to demand gender equality for themselves and their daughters. RBG is mercifully still kickin’ it on the bench (even if she did miss oral arguments for surgery today for the first time in 25 years,) and a big beautiful freshWOman cohort has just been sworn into congress. Some things are looking promisingly good in 2019, after two long years of increasingly horrid OMGWTF moments. Also – Cyntonia Brown got clemency today and is going to be free soon! Fuck yeah!