I should be writing.
I was reading in bed last night when I heard a strange splattering noise coming from my daughter’s bedroom. I ran in to find my middle daughter sitting in her sister’s IKEA desk chair with her pants around her ankles. She was not awake. Her body must have sensed the chair and thought, “good enough.”…
I had a dream the other night that my nine-month old daughter died. She is my third daughter, and I’ve had this dream about the other two as well. It’s a completely jarring experience. In this most recent dream, Hattie died from an illness, and she was scheduled to see the pediatrician the very next…
DR. JONES: Pull the plug. We’re wasting our resources with this simulation. GRAD ASSISTANT BEN: But doctor, this simulation has come a long way. JONES: Has it? I don’t see how it can be redeemed, quite honestly. BEN: Just give it a little more time. JONES: It’s already degrading the server.…
For a while I was writing a blog post twice a month. Then it was once a month (still, not bad for me.) Then life happened. This is my first blog post in close to four months. So, here’s what’s been happening: We had a baby! Daughter number three was born on April 24th. Of…
Bromleigh and I are having a baby girl this spring (the final installment of the trilogy,) and people keep asking us what we plan on naming her. And by people, I mean, my mother-in-law. It’s not something I usually want to talk about, but I don’t blame her for her curiosity (and her willingness to…
