Yesterday I stayed home all day and recuperated. One of the things I really wanted to do was make that bead necklace I was talking about, to memorialize the miscarriage experience. So when Erik set off to the Farmers' Market in the morning, I asked him to take Cecily with him in the stroller so I could be alone and concentrate, which he did. I ( Read more... )

OK, when Erik, Cecily & I visited Fargo this past weekend, it wasn't exactly in order for us to bid it farewell. I'm sure we will visit there again sometime. But it was time to bid farewell to Erik's childhood home, which is all cleaned out and in sale proceedings, and to wish his mom well on her retirement and upcoming move to northern Idaho to ( Read more... )

Well, there haven't been any Cecily videos in a long time because I've been having such bad computer problems. We think my machine's motherboard is degrading and I'll need to replace it (or maybe the whole computer). Everytime I tried to edit a Cecily video in Windows Moviemaker, it caused the whole system to crash ( Read more... )

It has been too long since I've posted anything here. I too have been succumbing to the low-attention-span, click-and-go format of Facebook, like so many others before me. I do still have ideas I'd really like to write about in my journal, but it's so hard to find (OK, to make) the time for that ( Read more... )

Somehow I haven't gone to church in more than a month - and haven't felt like I'm missing anything. My identity as a Unitarian Universalist is still important to me, but I am reminded of my father-in-law, who is a staunch UU without needing to go to church to reaffirm this fact. Or my own father, for that matter, who stopped going to church when ( Read more... )

( Ever meet somebody who eerily reminded you of yourself of ten years ago? )

So, I've been struggling to establish a circle of friends since we moved here nine months ago. The few people I've met that I wanted to get together with are usually just as busy as me, and we can't seem to align schedules, especially the parents of babies Cecily's age, with whom I'd like to have playdates ( Read more... )

You know the phrase, "If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention"? Well, these days I'm paying attention more than I ever have to politics and economics in this country. There are so many different ways to keep up with what's going on - DailyKos and AlterNet and The Daily Show and Rachel Maddow, not to mention Facebook updates from my ( Read more... )

Cecily is one year old today! She will have visitors and carrot cake and presents.

For now, I also want to post last week's video, better late than never.