I wanted to run across and cry with her, to tell her that it would get better, to hold the baby for an instant, to let her inhale deeply.
We're calling ourselves "slashfoodies" and, never mind if you don't get it. That's not that unusual - what was unusual was that they were all entitled "AOL" and the first one had a rumor. I wondered if I hadn't birthed a changeling.
Nothing ever went on in those fields.
"And it's now theory time.
I wrote about it at length on Blogging Baby, and I'll let you read it there. But she's young, single, without a mortgage.
It closed when the developer decided to level it to make a strip mall. We would walk there, in the afternoons, for late late breakfast and the coffee I so needed.
Should I feel guilty?
I looked at her in surprise.
When I lived in northern Virginia right after graduation from business school, I worked off the Dulles Toll Road in a fast-growing exurb called Ashburn.
I begged for Thursdays off, everyone bent over backwards to accomodate me. I told Everett to put his head by Truman's and this is what happened.
And I started down, I reminded myself to pick up speed, I adjusted my arms and lengthened my stride. My failure to provide my boys with appropriate bath frequency. He told me that he was ready to read books and sing songs and eat a snack.
The lisping, lilting way kids talk; the funny retort that you never forget; that nickname that sticks despite its silliness. Their lease was always month-to-month.
Can I be a more present mama? ", people are asking to be in my mama's group, people are calling to set up phone interviews with me.
Parents who swear when their babies are babies come to a crossroads around preschool.
I've been dealing with a wicked sugar-butter-chocolate craving, nothing can feed it in quite the right way.
did I mention I quote Gerard Manley Hopkins from memory?
Nothing ever went on in those fields.
It wasn't a very effective boycott - it's not like I can take my business to some other tanning salon. I'm experimenting with my food photography, too, and I'll post many of the results here soon. I've never wished to return to Ashburn, Virginia, and I probably never will. Now I could be just writing, about things that I love to write about, of my own choice, all the time. There's "those are not my CHOICES!
I've been dealing with a wicked sugar-butter-chocolate craving, nothing can feed it in quite the right way. And what should I feel guilty about?
I recently confessed to taking very few showers on Blogging Baby.