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First things first: you people will never know (no matter how hard I try to tell you) what you have done for me this week. I want to respond to all your comments individually, but being emotionally overwhelmed. . .well, we’ll see. In any case, many, many thanks. This being-separated-from-Jacob-and-Abbie is one of the . . . → Read More: Bombarded My head hurts. Actually, I have pain from my forehead, up and around the back of my head, down into my neck, and spreading across my shoulders and down to my back. Why? Because I don’t like my kid much these days, and that’s a shitty way to be feeling. If I had a . . . → Read More: Under Siege Brian and Carter have gone to bed, closing out a day that I’d just as soon have skipped. There was yelling today. Also some stomping on the stairs, several episodes door slamming, and, of course, the requisite cursing. I wish I could say that all the bad behavior belonged to the small person who has . . . → Read More: The Mother I Was, the Mother I Am, and the Mother I Wish I Could Be Wow. Alright, based on my email inbox and a few comments, it seems I need to clear a few things up. I love you all for being concerned. Really and truly, I do. This is meant to reassure, not scold, so please hear it in the manner in which it is intended! Expressing my . . . → Read More: Happier and Healthier: Creating a Peaceful Environment  Depression is a wily motherfucker. She’ll use whatever she sees to gouge me right in the soul, to suck the life out of me and make me too tired to fight her. She sees the overflowing laundry hamper and says, “My God, if you can’t even keep up with the laundry, what good . . . → Read More: The Sound of the Darkness This article originally appeared in the Winter, 2010 issue of Brain, Child Magazine. I am reprinting it here because this is a key piece of Carter’s and my history that is missing from No Points for Style.
In the four months since Carter’s birth, I had memorized the shadows’ patterns on . . . → Read More: Love with Teeth Or Why I’m Always Half Asleep When I Drop Carter Off at School We have a poop issue in the mornings before school. Not every morning, but more than half of the time, there is panic about poop. Carter needs to poop before he goes to school. Needs. With a history of acute constipation . . . → Read More: Poop Troubles and Panic  |
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