This picture makes me so proud. My son loves to read and to scribble. He picks up pens and immediately looks for paper. Maybe he'll be a little like me after all. Maybe his blond hair will stay, too.For some time now, Steve and I have been watching Brandon, wondering if he was left-handed. He... Continue Reading →
Football is nearly here! Fantasy football draft #1 tonight!
Seven years ago:Today:
Have you heard of human microchimerism? It's when cells from a fetus pass through the placenta and establish cell lineages within the mother. Women carry fetal cells from babies they have carried. Those cells mix with the mother's own cells - the fetal cells circulate in the mother's bloodstream for decades after each birth. A... Continue Reading →
I have had a lot of jobs. I've loved a few of them. But none of them have compared to where I work now. On Fridays at 4pm, we stop working, grab a beer out of the fridge and a plate of snacks and head into our unfinished ping pong area. We play or watch... Continue Reading →
I seriously have the world's cutest and happiest little boy.
I went to a seminar today. I know: seminars; gross. But I did get to see this video there: http://youtube.googleapis.com/v/l-gQLqv9f4o&source=udsIt is a very fitting time. I started reading a memoir about a girl who got pregnant young and it turned her world upside down. I read it in bed last night, tears streaming down my cheeks... Continue Reading →
I am pathetic. I am a weak person. As you all know, I quit caffeine back in February. And that stuck for awhile - two months, maybe. Until I told myself that having a coffee once in awhile certainly wouldn't make me an addict. And that's true, if you can get once in a while... Continue Reading →
Yesterday, a dear friend lost a dear friend. Anni is one of my very best friends from college. Chad was a very good friend of her's. Read the article about Chad RogersAnni, Patrick and I stopped at Chad's house ten years ago on a road trip. He was funny and kind and charismatic and hospitable.... Continue Reading →
Rebecca said, "Look at the pebbles in the bottom of the pool, Miss Emily, so round and smooth and shining." "Yes, but where did they get that beautiful polish, that satin skin, that lovely shape, Rebecca? Not in the still pool lying on the sands. It was never there that their angles were rubbed off... Continue Reading →
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