I’ll tell you this one thing: I could’ve stood there and watched those dolphins swim back and forth in front of me in the underwater viewing tank at Sea World for hours and hours. I know I’m not supposed to say that because Shamu killed that trainer and really those dolphins are probably thinking something like “fuck you, you ignorant peons, one day we’ll get you all for this!”

Continue reading about I Like Dolphins and to a Lesser Degree, Computers and Avery’s Birthdays

You may be interested in these related posts:
Summer on June 20th, 2010

Yesterday I cried these huge, body convulsing sobs of ridiculousness, just almost comical in their expression. Almost. I could have turned the music off, I guess. I could have opted out of wandering around the house…doing whatever it was I was doing. In the end I did; I made a Facebook photo caption joke out [...]

Continue reading about Learning to Meditate In 4 second Intervals

You may be interested in these related posts:
Summer on May 11th, 2010

Grief is funny. Recently my husband let it slip that for our whole relationship he hasn’t understood my hanging onto this whole “Silas thing” – his exact words were something like “whenever you brought it up I would think’ ‘really? again?’…” and I nodded sagely even as my face grew hot with humiliation because we [...]

Continue reading about Happy Birthday Silas

You may be interested in these related posts:

I’ve cleaned out my closet because I’m a fan of metaphor, and because I don’t have a magic grief reliever or pregnancy disappearer or fast forward button for our lives.
And also- I’m going to say this because I’m tired of dancing around the issue and being afraid of losing friends: I’ve lost a SHITLOAD of [...]

Continue reading about Separating Beauty from Chaos-Adventures in Cleaning My Closet

You may be interested in these related posts:

This is me trying to be funny about something that’s the least funny thing that has ever happened: my realization that nothing I have ever believed about parenting is true, and that quite possibly every piece of advice I have ever given about parenting is wrong. And I’ve given a lot of it, because of almost everyone I know, I’ve got the oldest child. Here are little nuggets of wisdom I’ve been spreading around the world that have not produced the results we anticipated, and therefore I feel like I should warn you off of them:

Continue reading about My Review of the Top Five Parenting Books Ever Written

You may be interested in these related posts: