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champion post
It starts with an angry murmur, barely audible over the TV and his tablet.
“Hey.”Most of the words that follow are unintelligible, but I catch his drift, if not the underlying cause. His grip on the tablet tightens, fingernails digging into its rubber case. His body is tense and yet constantly in motion; I can almost see the waves of anxiety and ( Read more... ) -
babel
I never knew real love until the day I heard you sing Let It Go.
The song is nearly unrecognizable on your lips. But what you lack in enunciation and melody, you make up for in earnestness. I can feel your tiny heart soaring as you rise like the break of dawn, and you can’t help yourself - you tangle your little fingers in my hair insistently, ( Read more... ) -
sharp words
“It’s an outpatient procedure - just a minor excision. For an older child, we would just use a local anesthetic, but we can’t count on cooperation with children this young. It’s safer to put them under with general anesthesia.”
Excision. Excision.I can see the scalpel in my mind’s eye, imagine the table of sterile instruments. But every time I ( Read more... ) -
i can do that
“You’re doing real good, Stacey. That’s it, just like that ( Read more... ) -
melting down.
It was a good trip, one of so many. Just you and me, zigzagging down the aisles, cartoonish sound effects for every hairpin turn or sudden reversal. You had just started saying hi to strangers, early and often and without prompting. You even stopped in the crosswalk on the way into the store to wave and say hi to the driver who was patiently ( Read more... ) -
lost
Over time, I've tried to make peace with the idea that parenting has become an industry. The availability of information in this day and age means that there's often way too much information, shouting at you from every corner, with very few tools to help you discern what's true, and more importantly, what's right for your family ( Read more... ) -
shibusa
This week’s entry is an intersection with the very talented douchejuice. He has done me the honor of not only collaborating with me, but also stepping up as my champion to represent me in this week’s voting over at therealljidol. Please start by reading his entry here.Memories are markers that show us the paths that we have walked. When we lose some of these signpoints, ( Read more... ) -
quick fire challenge
A pregnant friend asked me today if I had any motherly wisdom to share with her as she prepares for her first child ( Read more... ) -
lost the plot
It doesn’t look like much of anything - just a tiny white square of paper in his cupped palm. It’s no more than a centimeter on each side ( Read more... ) -
intersubjectivity
“Right now, Timothy meets the criteria for Autism Spectrum Disorder ( Read more... )