Browsing all posts from February, 2009.
02/24/09
Precisely five seconds ago he was draped over the crook of my arm like a warm pea pod while I peacefully enjoyed the Harry Potter saga and sipped Chai lattes (with no lid!). Suddenly my straw is making that empty-glass gurgly sound and he is gone! He has slipped out of my dreamy embrace [...]
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02/19/09
I’m distracted by this. Without giving creepy Internet weirdos my exact address, let’s just say it was nearby. Grief veils the village faces– rescue workers, neighbors, parsonage, mothers– all are affected. My friends and I mope around with sore lips from repeatedly kissing the warm cheeks of our babies.
Some things just won’t fit in the [...]
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02/06/09
I can’t think. I can’t think. I am doing a load of whites. I am making sandwiches. I am gluing decorations for the coffee social at church. No, actually, I am slathering Vick’s Vapo-Rub under Charlie’s snot-soaked t-shirt while peanut butter and scrapbook paper and dirty socks sputter through my cranial mess of smoldering, sparking [...]
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