dx

over a week ago when i first started having a rash on my body my friend jane (who lives really far away and couldn’t even see me) asked me if it might be pityriasis rosea? i looked at it online and thought…well, maybe but mine doesn’t look that bad.
well now over a week later [...]

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funk

this morning i went to the gym again and i let the all knowing eve work my body to the point of exhaustion and glee. i came home and downed a lot of water. i assembled a shoe rack for our new hallway “mudroom area” with the kids while flash went for his [...]

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it hurts so good

i will let you in on a little secret. most mornings the kids are up early and flash gathers them up into their joyous little bundles of wakefulness and takes them downstairs to sleep while i stay in bed, stretch out in whatever direction i want, and sleep alone for a bit. ahhhhhhhhh. [...]

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hello pea

 
 
 
 
in april i started a series of posts telling the story of the bean’s birth.  today i interrupt that story line and attempt to tell a short version of the story of chickpea’s birth.  i hope that hearing this story (and many others) will help a fellow blogger i truly admire to have the out [...]

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words-y

it has been so long since i put any pictures up and i am feeling seriously guilty. i am sure you all are sick and tired of all these words and just want to hang out and look at a baby smile again. sorry about that. i shall try to get my [...]

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smoking air

it is evening and i am driving and i am keyed up.  on the way home from therapy.  my brain is busy dancing and stretching and racing and reaching out as far as it can go to grasp the pieces of the puzzle.  in the last hour i was brave, and terrified, and nervous to [...]

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