I have been remiss in introducing the newest member of the circus. Y’all need to meet Pop. I don’t have a huge amount of childhood memories of my dad. He worked a union job with no overtime, so I know he was around. But my mom was such a huge presence that she overshadowed everything …
Summer School
I was a good student. School came easy for me in a way that it didn’t for others, which is something I didn’t realize until I was older. I took it for granted, you know? I just got used to being at the front of the line. You know what I absolutely do not excel …
Tom Cochrane Is Not OK
I'm gonna let you in on a few secrets of the universe according to Mama Sarah. One: you're never gonna be as financially prepared as you will want to be before your children are born. You will also never be as financially prepared as you'd like to become thereafter. Two: you're not really hungry, you're …
Drama Queen
That scene from Monty Python where a priests explodes through a door and shouts, “NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!” is precisely how my boys wake up. Every. Damn. Day. Pitch black darkness and utter stillness. And then. There’s a thunder of footsteps pounding up the stairs. The hall door slams shut. And 0.15 seconds later, …
Duh.
I’m spending this week at mom and dad’s, packing up the house to make room for our clown car of children and their various accoutrements. Going through mom’s things has been harder than I’d imagined. It’s just stuff, but it was her stuff and she loved it. Picking what to keep or not feels so …
Love In the Time of COVID
My babygirl’s in surgery and I’m scared to death. I’m in some random waiting room with masked strangers and I’m the only one crying. All I can think is how bad I wish my mom were here, which is making me cry more. I’m hungry but I can’t eat and I’m tired but I can’t …
Paging Professor X
Two nights and three naps into the trip, I’ve come to a realization: our sperm donor was obviously a member of the X-Men. We’re talking mutant genetic material, full of freaky-deaky powers. This is an obvious conclusion, really. Because there is simply no other way that Pook could morph into a human-cephalopod hybrid every time …
Here We Go
Pook and I are on a plane to Florida right now. Pook will be having tongue reduction surgery Monday morning and we need to be in town two business days prior for COVID testing. In addition to testing, we’re attending the 2020 Beckwith Wiedemann Conference over the weekend, which also happens to be in Miami. …
How Do You Like Them Apples?
I consider myself a generally kind and reasonable human being. My house motto is “Be Kind”, which I say to my kids seventeen times a day. I’d like to think I can be calm and rational when faced with a crisis. I repeatedly reminded myself of all this today as I plotted the torture and …
Be Like Boogie
I woke up this morning at 5:45 to the sound of Boogie’s jurrasic squeals. I hadn’t even opened my eyes before the to-do list started rolling through my brain like a loaded jumbojet. Pook and I leave for her surgery the day after tomorrow. Just me and my two year old, flying as far across …
My Five Ring Circus 