Surprise baby
About a year and a half ago, I had a strange vision. I was at acupuncture, which can definitely mess with your head, and I was very relaxed. I was trying to picture something about work, I think I was...
View ArticleShifting Identities
One thing that is difficult for me right now is how variable and inconsistent Ezekiel is right now. I think that all of us are re-creating our identities all of the time, but most of the time we don’t...
View ArticleMy 6 y.o. teaches trans 101
A couple nights ago, I said to my daughter Leigh (age 6) “Hey, I noticed that you called me ‘Aba’ a lot when we were at J & C’s house last weekend, that felt really nice.” She responded, “Well,...
View ArticleUnderpants crisis
Captain Underpants and the Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I don’t buy my own underpants. With a few exceptions, I have always relied on Ezekiel to buy underpants for himself...
View ArticleA hard part.
Utterly delightful conversations aside, sometimes combining transition and parenthood is really hard. Leigh is so clear in her thinking, so vocal with her opinions and thoughts, and she demands...
View ArticlePregnancy, part I
I got pregnant to fix something. At that time, I might have told you I felt so intensely about it because my cycles had always been so bad, because I hardly ever ovulated and my periods were so...
View ArticlePregnancy, Part II
[See part I for the backstory, in which I figure pregnancy will fix everything and then it all goes downhill. fast.] When all was said and done, we all made it through. Our baby was and is tremendously...
View ArticleA year ago
About a year ago I was sitting with my friend J in our favorite bar, one of our occassional meet-ups after children were dispatched to bed. He’d picked up a couple books before we met up. I scanned one...
View ArticleOn preschoolers and haircuts
I do the haircuts for kids on our house. This arrangement sort of came about by accident, in part because when our oldest was a toddler, there was no way she was going to consent to a haircut by a...
View ArticleSeven years later
About two and a half years ago Ezekiel and I decided not to have a third child. Now our “baby,” Ira, is four years old and will be starting kindergarten next fall. Leigh is a second-grader. We are no...
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