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Oh curse the dawn, with itsblack skies and heat-seeking windswhen all else sleeps on this Hallow’s Eveand I stumble madly in the cold,hair wild and crushed beneath hat,heedless of pajamas and slipperspeeking out from my coat like a homeless childthrough the desolate lot of a half-lit gas stationin desperate…
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What heavy things weigh on my mind at 5:30 in the morning as I roll out of bed to take my newly minted freshman, O, to 6:00 a.m. swim practice? Honestly? I wish I could say I was having profound thoughts, bringing with them clarity and a sagacity that…
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Originally published October 19, 2011
…would not be enough, if you were to ask me at the moment. But that is just this very moment, when the sky is still dark with cold, late fall, morning rain, and I am the only one awake, procrastinating that daily ritual I call…
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Originally published October 1, 2011
Ever beautiful.
Not in the way that I ever thought I would be – not sandwiched between my mom and my daughter for a day of shopping, or for a baby shower, or any of the number of things that I was fortunate enough to do…
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Originally published September 27, 2011
Need I say more?
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Originally published September 25, 2011
Ok, I will not lie. I should be studying Mendelian genetics, epistasis and other patterns of genomic inheritance. I know this. My professor giving the exam Monday knows this. My husband (yes, my husband… yes, I’m pretty sure I did mention it somewhere) would know it…