Yesterday we took C to see WALL*E, which was as good as everyone’s been saying. (Though I did hear about a person who hated the anti-consumerism message, and was going to boycott Disney as a result. Yes, you heard that right. He’s going to take a stand for consumerism… by not buying anything.)
Anyway, we saw […]

It’s Mr. RM’s birthday! Yes, he is old enough to be president now.
As he puts it, “Yes, my age has really been holding me back from that.”
I’ve been thinking today about how we met. It was sophomore year in college, and this is how it happened, with a few edits. From this post:
Put simply, […]

Last night I got an e-mail from the editor of a second mama-related e-zine asking whether I’d gotten the e-mail a couple of months ago saying that they’d accepted two poems for their website. Well no, I hadn’t, although it’s possible my bizarro-world spam filter ate them up. So two pieces will be up on […]

Take it from a couple of wanna-be foodies… When you’re at a wonderful restaurant and can’t decide among the menu items, and the chef offers a tasting menu, get it.
…splash of onion soup with a thimble-sized parmesan biscuit
…homemade sourdough with roasted garlic and olive tapenade
…crab salad on couscous with marinated julienne cucumbers
…caramelized scallop with homemade […]

This weekend is our twelfth wedding anniversary (zoinks!! how???), and we are headed to Peaceful Beach in a couple of hours. Thanks to Free to Be who will watch the girls this afternoon, and to Mamala, who will take over until we return tomorrow evening.
Today’s Friday Five is a word association; the words are
whirlwind, foundation, […]

for r on his birthday
our daughter studies scars—
reads them like leaves,
permanent markers that write their own stories
of mishap, clumsiness, on our skin.
she traces the bridge of my nose,
its crease the only evidence of frayed laces,
of brick stairs long since demolished;
the comma on my thigh endures
long after the pyrex was shattered
and its jewel shards swept into […]

after i said
what i shouldn’t have said,
after the words settled as dust
on a cluttered kitchen table,
i turned, and tumbled into a photo on the fridge
of you, me and the girl between us.
i got tangled in its grinning trinity
and couldn’t tell whether the hand cradling her back
was yours or mine—
lean, tanned fingers, or mine in shadow?
nails […]

Today is the 14th of October.
Fourteen Octobers ago, I was a sophomore in college.
Put simply, fall of sophomore year was a warm steaming barrel of shit. Honestly. It was just a big pile of manure.
I spent the second half of freshman year, and the summer following, basically between a rock and a hard place. The […]

Today is the eleventh of October.
Eleven Octobers ago, it was 1994.
That month, R and I got married.
I wrote something for our tenth anniversary last year, but didn’t say anything about the actual event. Here are a few quick memories about our wedding…
How it all began
In January of 1994, R and I were seniors at Rice […]

i don’t believe in
soul mates,
The One,
you complete me,
i’ve been waiting for a girl like you,
a feeling deep in your soul says you were half now you’re whole.
but i did have a dream once:
i stood outside my childhood home
and a party buzzed and clattered within.
and my guide (faceless person)
said my soul mate was inside.
i wandered slowly,
scrutinizing […]

And what an innovative title.
All in all, it was a wonderful vacation. R and I had a great time in Chicago, and C had lots of fun at Camp G-mommy. Our trip was definitely low on the lie-around factor, but that was by design. I think we both were probably weary enough to have had […]