On the plane on my way out to Singapore for a week, I’m already conscious of absence. I’ve been to the Asian area something like 26 in the last two and a half years or so but it seems different to head out now. She was sleeping in the back seat soundly as I left,…

I’ve been reading a blog called Confessions of a Pioneer Woman and it’s just about the funniest, most charming and witty mommy-type blog I’ve ever read. The woman really does live on a ranch with her children and horses and cattle. She calls her husband Marlboro Man. She calls her male children punks. And when…

It may not look it in some of the innocent pictures on this blog but there’s a struggle going on for our young daughter’s soul. It is a battle of biblical proportions, one the world hasn’t seen for many centuries. Goethe only imagined such a colossal confrontation when imagining the Faust legend. And our little…

Bea and I had our first movie night yesterday while Brian was away in California. We watched Marie Antoinette – directed by Sofia Coppola. I loved it. I thought it deserved a lot more attention than it seemed to get. I loved that it wasn’t like other historical films that try to depict the time…

Brian tried to wake Bea from her deep sleep by dancing to some Led Zeppelin. An attempt to teach her that day is for being awake and night is for being asleep.

Bea turned three weeks old yesterday. It was also the first day that I was able to go out and meet Brian for lunch since before Bea was born. It was also an absolutely beautifully warm sunny spring day. Bea was perfectly behaved in her stroller while we had a nice lunch. Last week there…

Beatrice the Beast has arrived. Our quiet, practically sleeps through the night little angel has realized that it can be fun to torture Mommy and Daddy as well. I can see how this would be fun and am not so old as to have forgotten how much I too enjoyed this art but it is…

Someone was surprised to hear that Brian changed diapers. Let me just state that so far he has probably changed just as many diapers as I have. We have the photos to prove that he is a good diaper changer as well as sleepy-time inducer. The only problem is sometimes he falls asleep too. This…

The day she came was a strange day. For most of the time, we both were just hoping it was for real. For Kathy, it was the intense shame of walking out of the hospital empty handed, as though every security guard in the complex was shaking their head at the crazy lady who had…