Stepping away

My god, these are the kinds of parents my kids need. Read this, wherein she quotes from here. The hardest thing for me about parenting Henry has been the sense that every time I get my feet under me, the ground moves again and I am left struggling to get my balance. I think Henry […]

‘I need a cigarette.’

It has been a very long time since that thought has entered my mind. But it did on Friday. Weekend wrap up, so far: the movers have come and gone; the rest we put on a truck and brought home, by way of Austin where we dropped off a bunch at a sister’s house. Somewhere […]

I understood there would be no fuzzy math

My head hurts from trying to figure this out, and I suspect it is some kind of supply and demand nonsense: It is cheaper (much) to buy a round-trip airline ticket than one way. The thing is, I need a one way ticket. So in this day and age of suspecting grandparents of being terrorists […]