I pop the door open, ready for a horrible stabbing knife of cold. The morning air rushes in, and it’s weird. Warm. We push our way through the heavy old doorway and see that the entire sidewalk has been painted with water somehow. Everything out here is soaked — the trees, the cement picnic tables. [...]
I wasn’t a very good mother today. This week was full of all the snot and sore throats and resulting needy crankiness, and I don’t know – those are reasons maybe why by Friday I’d be overloaded. But they’d also be reasons to throw your weight behind this mothering thing and work extra hard [...]
My brain is better, I think. Of course – where am I getting this information? So it’s hard to say for sure, but the people around me seem less irritable and more at ease with me being awake, so I’m going to take that as a good sign.
Side effects so far: dreams are not as [...]
We were running late, but I didn’t feel stressed. Even as we hit our third inexplicable clot of traffic and the clock shoved closer to the start of Graham’s class, I felt the kind of calm of someone who knows that really the day is going well, the house at home is fairly clean, and [...]
I live in a suburb of Atlanta. Life is easy here in a way that things have never been easy for middle-class people before in the history of the world. We live the life of Egyptian kings, all of us, except the food is better and we have air conditioning and less pressure to be [...]