Our First Thanksgiving as a Married Couple
This time last year looks a lot like the pictures below. I didn’t take pictures last year, so you know I’m not just reusing photos. Just like last year, Reilly’s mom and sister cooked a ton of amazing...
View ArticleAnother Book I’m Reading
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal, by Mary Roach I just started reading this, and asterisks twinkle sporadically throughout the text. Because the content is so interesting and the style is so...
View ArticleButter Makes Everything Not Related to Racism Better
We look at the menu, but we both order the buffet. This buffet isn’t like Golden Corral with its vast selection of mediocre food; the heated food island at Lady & Sons carries fewer items cooked to...
View ArticleBeach Day
Am I ever going to catch up writing about vacation? Do you ever have the intention of writing deep, soul-searching rambles, letting your mind wander and return refreshed? Would you ever let your mind...
View ArticleA Dream about Lunch
Morgan Freeman was in my dream last night. He was homeless in Salt Lake City. I ate lunch with him every day. We didn’t eat by ourselves, though. About 6 other strangers ate lunch with me and Morgan...
View ArticleThe First Trimester
You guys. I’m pregnant. There is a baby in my tummy. As of today, I’m 14 weeks, one day along. That means about 26 weeks to go. Of course I’m counting weeks. And counting weeks is sort of like waiting...
View ArticleLast Thursday My Appetite Decides to Go Berserk
Yesterday during my monthly doctor’s appointment, I was acting like a first-trimesterite: small-stomached yet gassy; low-energy; surprise peeing. Now it’s 3am on Thursday, October 3, 2013: I have to...
View ArticleA Test of Just Station All Dye a Bead Ease
— One early morning in January, May went to the lab to undergo a three-hour glucose screening. Workers at the lab had instructed her to fast for 10-12 hours and only drink water. They told her to bring...
View Article30 Weeks
30 is 3/4 of the way there. 75%. I feel like I should have something amazing to report from today’s doctor’s visit. Well, the awesome thing is that we’re going to have a baby in about ten weeks. Can’t...
View ArticleBrain Lapses and Meta Sadness
Three little anecdotes, either because 1) the public shouldn’t know every lapse I have beyond three, or 2) I have been extremely alert and conscientious, and I only have three imperfections to report....
View ArticleYear-End Ramble: 2017
This year: Pick your best cussword. 2017 has challenged us in so many ways. It has strained our rights as human beings, divided us from friends and family, tested faith, broken individuals seemingly...
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