Divorce sometimes feels like sitting on the floor in an empty room. Like during a move, maybe, when you’ve cleaned out part of your space and it’s all empty and strange feeling, but you know ...
https://pikaperdu.wordpress.com/2016/10/03/the-other-side-of-the-door/
There are moments when I look back and remember how angry I was. Angry, sad, frustrated, ignored, lonely. These feelings surged when J and I became parents and almost every interaction with her ...
https://pikaperdu.wordpress.com/2016/01/27/how-did-we-get-here/
It’s almost October. Little Man is 16 months old now. Still crawling. Said his first word the other day. Climbs chairs and stairs like a mountaineer. My sister is still healthy after he...
So many things. At around 3:30 a.m. Monday morning, I emailed a draft of my thesis to my adviser. Then I held my breath, because my field work involved SO many different kinds of monitoring. ...
It’s a Monday morning at the end of April, and as I sit at my computer desk, Little Guy is clinging to my chair and banging a spoon against my leg. J is at a doctor’s appointment, and the h...
https://pikaperdu.wordpress.com/2015/04/27/when-to-talk-and-when-to-not/
Last Saturday I went on a hike with J and Little Guy. We drove out to the foothills, to a trailhead we had been to innumerable times; it was, in fact, the place we first went hiking when we mov...
https://pikaperdu.wordpress.com/2015/02/25/an-epilogue-of-sorts/
Last Sunday I drove eight hours to visit my family in Washington. Even though I had made the trip little more than a month before, I was loving the length of the drive and the freedom of being ...
The night before we planned to drive to my parents’ home for the Christmas holidays, my dog, Ziggy, had another nosebleed. It wasn’t the worst she’s had — The blood wasn’t dripping of...
https://pikaperdu.wordpress.com/2014/12/30/home-healthy-sorta-for-the-holidays/
Ann has a diagnosis now, but not a prognosis. The diagnosis is primary mediastinal large b cell lymphoma. It’s rare — only 2% of all lymphomas are this particular type — but it most com...
I didn’t use to think that I would want to be a stay-at-home mom. Then I became one, and little by little, I grew to enjoy it. To want it to continue. Finances dictate otherwise, however. �...
https://pikaperdu.wordpress.com/2014/10/21/time-to-go-back-to-work/