Recently, a small war just blew up on my Facebook page. A Representative in New York submitted a bill, H. R. 5741, for compulsory service for everyone 18-42. I read the bill, flipped out a little, and posted it on my page, for comment. And boy, did I get comment. But really not what I [...]
Archive for the tag 'Musings'
July 13 2010
Missing Charlie
Today is the one year anniversary of the last day I ever saw my friend Charlie. She had the biggest heart of anyone we’ve ever met. As one of our marina compatriots said, “every time you ran into Charlie on the dock, you came away feeling uplifted. She had something good to say about everyone, [...]
July 11 2010
Velveeta of Grief
As the folks who read my other blog know, I’m writing a book about the process of turning your back on the American definition of success, and doing something else entirely. I wrote a bunch of stuff for the book that I’m now editing back out, for one reason or another (like, I was freaking [...]
February 25 2010
Becoming Italian — The Crow Commandments
My friend Pilar sent me a link to this blog, and I found myself nodding, grinning, and really just identifying with, oh I dunno, pretty much everything in the whole blog. On the one hand, it’s paperwork everywhere I look. On the other hand… bring on the crows.
February 15 2009
Happy Birthday, Grandpa
Grandpa Gagan’s birthday is today. He died when I was 17. And never a year goes by that I do not make my way to the sea on this day. On years where I’m pressed for time, I throw in flowers. In years where I can, I bake his favorite cake, the truly ghastly applesauce [...]
February 13 2009
Unemployment #4
I received a lovely pep-talk from Christine. We have history — she hired me to do DTP contracting at Borland, years ago. She also hired Jenny, who left Borland, hired me at Sun, then hired Christine as a contractor, and now Jenny and I are gone from Sun, and Christine is doing ubergiggery there. Over [...]
January 15 2009
Riding with Chip
Everyone knows you never pick up hitchhikers. We were driving home from Christmas in Nevada, at my parents’ place. We’d had a white christmas, the boys’ first ever, and ours too. It was cold cold cold, snowy, and perfectly wintry. We’d had a lovely time (which I’ll talk about in another post). And as we [...]
December 26 2008
All in the Attitude
A few days ago, I received this email from a coworker of mine. Ed is an amazing guy; a seriously positive human being, despite being from the Bronx and threatening to break kneecaps sometimes. Ed has a tendency to drop these little gems of wisdom around and not even realize he’s done it. I’m not [...]
December 23 2008
I Want To Be Like You
As I’ve mentioned a time or two before, Aurora is growing fast. Way faster than her brothers did, mostly because she has them to look up to, and an intense motivation to catch up to them. I didn’t post the other day when she started crawling, but she is. It’s still not super-organized; more like, [...]
September 17 2008
Happy Anniversary
Yesterday was my eighth wedding anniversary. This is not the man I thought I was marrying. The guy I thought I was marrying was a rough, tough, hammer-swinging, tattooed-and-earringed bad boy. I thought the sun rose in his eyes, and wasn’t terribly concerned about the rest. Things change, with time. If you’re lucky and you’ve [...]
June 11 2008
Are We There Yet?
I‘m due to have this baby any time now. It’s obvious if you know me and know my dates. I’ve been telling people “I’m having a Gemini”, so that’s a clear clue. And of course, I’m huge, so that’s a dead giveaway. If even one more person asks me “haven’t you had that baby yet?” [...]
February 22 2008
Each Other’s Family
I blogged a teeny bit about my July 31 miscarriage here. And until I was discussing the due date for the baby I’m carrying now with Mom2, I had forgotten that the baby I miscarried was due right around now. I miscarried between Rowan and Kestrel too. That one, an eight-weeker and so-called “silent” miscarriage, [...]
February 20 2008
Thoughts at 26 Weeks
So here I am, over halfway. In our culture, for the first baby, you spend all your time panicking about the unknown of it all. In my case, I spent my second pregnancy wholly focused on the event of the birth, which was a planned HBAC, and came with all the challenges inherent to that. [...]
