Not Everything That Grows Makes Noise
The spring equinox is the most low key holiday on the calendar. No gifts, no costumes, no small talk about casseroles. Just a quiet cosmic shrug where […]
Simmer Pots
The windows are shut and locked, the heat is on at home, the air is drier than the Sahara Desert, and your nose whistles with every breath you take. I have a solution!
Absence & Advocacy
It has been a minute. A hot minute. Like it feels like eons, ages, eras, generations – and simultaneously if feels like no time at all, a blink of an eye, two shakes of a lamb’s tail. But I am still here. Last we spoke, I had cancer. In May, I will find out if […]
Talk To Them
One of my immediate internal monologues when I found out that I have cancer went a little bit like this: How do I tell my babies that I have cancer? Should I tell my babies that I have cancer? […]
Hey, so, umm… I have cancer.
Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma. I found out Saturday morning that the biopsy I had earlier this week, with a projected 5-15% malignancy rate, has come back as cancer. It’s true what they say, you know…
More Than A Year | I’m Not Sorry
It has been more than a year since I have written. Please don’t be upset with me. It has been more than a year since I have addressed you, my faithful readers. But I promise, it really hasn’t. But it has. I have started posts since the last time I have written. I have started them, and stopped them. It has been more than a year – but the “more than a year” has been the strangest, hardest, most intense “more than a year” I think any of us, on earth, have ever experienced…
Bryant
Let’s start with some basic yes/no questions:
Is it sad that people died in a helicopter crash? Yes.
Is it especially sad that children lost their lives? Absolutely.
Is it devastating that families […]
Lead
August turned one 3 months ago. It was a wonderful birthday party full of friends at the public pool near our house. Splashing, playing and eating abounded and not a single meltdown was to be had (adult or child!).
He had his 12 month appointment on his birthday, and his stats were […]
Trollfeeding
For those of you who I am friends with on social media, you’ve probably seen a recent exchange on my page with regards to the new study about Autism being proven to be 80% hereditary. For those of you who follow this blog, you’ll be simultaneously happy (because it […]
One Year In
One year ago today I ate a Sam’s Club hot dog and jalapeno cheddar pretzel, I waddled around the store drinking a gigantic ice-cold root beer and shortly after that the contractions began.
One year ago tomorrow, […]
A Hopeful Midwesterner 