For the poetry workshop we received a freewriting prompt, to write a poem incorporating the words yes, once, circle and voice. Here is my (unedited) piece about going to see fireworks last night near the airport.
in the park at the airport’s edge
the plane bears down on us,
but for a few moments more,
i hear your voice […]

DEFINITELY a boy.
The internets called it!
My heart is hurting for a friend right now, but I had to pass on the good news.

So I am up early—I was tossing and turning and that finally seemed pointless. I dread the 4 a.m. bathroom break because often I’m just up after that. Only when pregnant though.
I wish I were a consistently productive morning person. I am more than I used to be, but only when I’m wide awake with […]

Tuesday morning is the ultrasound. We had an early u/s that suggested a boy, although
a) the tech said “don’t buy blue yet,” and
b) the midwife pooh-poohed trying to predict gender at 12 weeks. And yet,
c) the genitals have formed by then, which makes it technically possible to see something.
So……..

Boy or girl?

Boy

Girl

Uncooperative kid of indeterminate gender

Free […]