:: a guest post by Heather Lee :: Mourning. Wow. That’s a pretty wide topic. The scope is so wide in fact that it’s hard to know where to start. I mourn over industrialism. I mourn over the loss of green spaces. I mourn over our polarity. I mourn over the existence of hate. […]
The Earth Is Alive
We have had two weeks of sickness around here, and just when I thought we were getting well, it came back to invade my lungs and Grace’s ears. No sleep. I am so, so, so, so tired. Nevertheless, yesterday dawned warm and sunny and in hopes of the car motion lulling Grace into a nap, I took the […]
End of 31 Days
Day 31. We made it, huh? I must admit, sitting here staring at the screen right now feels a little bit like staring down the fire hydrant that is at the end of my (not-very-frequent) morning run. Each time I’m panting toward it this battle wages in my head: “Okay, there’s the fire hydrant. I just have […]
Notes From The Sick House
Well, we’ve been whipped and beaten by the stomach flu this week, which is no small defeat in a household of eight. This morning I finally felt normal enough to change out of pajamas, and begin the cleanup house-wide. Arienh and Eddie, you must know, ducked out of the family flu party by catching the […]
Parenting: It’s not for the faint of heart
I should have known it was his ears–that was always my mother’s go-to: “get the ears checked!”–but somehow checking ears always slips my mind in the hoary, blurry middle of the night. I wouldn’t discover that it was his ears until the morrow. We were sick anyway, my husband and I. Our colds were making […]
In Sickness and In Health
A stomach bug has hit our home, knocking three children and two parents down; leaving only the baby and the six year old standing. As I squatted next to a toilet at midnight, holding back the hair of two little girls who were simultaneously puking into the same blessed porcelain bowl, I glanced over at […]