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toothpick archipelagos: February 2011
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Friday, February 11, 2011. Yesterday you turned one. I spent the whole day thinking about what I was doing exactly a year before. Counting down the minutes until 10pm. The exact time you were born. The tenth hour of the tenth day of the second month of the year 2010. You've turned into such a magical little person Leila, I am so happy you are my daughter. Ma ma ma ma. Yes, that's an icepack I'm holding on my boob.). Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Oh you don't know the shape im in!
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toothpick archipelagos: January 2011
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011. The finite and the ever-after. Friday, January 7, 2011. It's been a long time, baby. I missed your ten month birthday, I'm sorry. There's a lot going on right now little bean. Your dad and I aren't very happy with each other. We love you immensely though. Never doubt that. Of all the things in your life that you should doubt, please, never doubt that. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. The finite and the ever-after. Its been a long time, baby. I might as well.
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toothpick archipelagos: September 2010
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Saturday, September 18, 2010. I know it's impractical to pick up and move your life because you have a child, but still. There's part of me that doesn't want to explain that that is who I am now, I just want to be it. Seven months and bit. Your best friend right now is Norton. You laugh and smack your hands onto whatever surface is nearby whenever he walks near you, and given your eating habits, he often waits nearby to catch falling crumbs from whatever you're eating. Monday, September 6, 2010. She's ex...
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toothpick archipelagos: of beginings and endings.
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Monday, July 11, 2011. Of beginings and endings. Last week, Leila started daycare. We went over on Tuesday for an hour so she could get used to the kids and the place, and she was fine. She played with the dogs and with the two little boys who go there as well. They're five and two. And when I came to pick her up she cried. She was having fun and didn't want to go. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. For my father on his 70th birthday. Of beginings and endings. I might as well.
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toothpick archipelagos: a love song for Leila, while I'm away
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011. A love song for Leila, while I'm away. Sometimes I miss you, the way Paul Simon must miss diamonds on the soles of his shoes. Days like today, when you're not there at the end of it. waiting, your arms outstretched to point. At trees and cars on the walk home. when there is no one to make dinner for; no reason to go home. Days like this one, I am still with you. my love goes with you, wherever you are, it hovers nearby. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). No one should see this.
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toothpick archipelagos: October 2011
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Saturday, October 1, 2011. Leila, you are on the cusp of speaking to me in full sentences. You reach for words and try to string them together and every day you learn how to say something new. It is shocking and amazing to now be able to ask you to do something and have you do it. "Leila close the door." "Leila give mommy a kiss? It doesn't really matter, you said the words, and then you held me. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. No one should see this. I'm driving myself crazy.
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toothpick archipelagos: for my father on his 70th birthday
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Friday, July 15, 2011. For my father on his 70th birthday. I could go on, dad, the list of things I'm grateful to you for is long and varied, but I'll leave it at that. I am to lucky to have a father whose advice I value and can trust. I think it's taken a while for me to be able to ask, but now that I can, it is a resource I treasure and rely on. Happy birthday dad, I am so happy I came to live at your house. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. For my father on his 70th birthday.
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toothpick archipelagos: Your first Birthday.
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Friday, February 11, 2011. Yesterday you turned one. I spent the whole day thinking about what I was doing exactly a year before. Counting down the minutes until 10pm. The exact time you were born. The tenth hour of the tenth day of the second month of the year 2010. You've turned into such a magical little person Leila, I am so happy you are my daughter. Ma ma ma ma. Yes, that's an icepack I'm holding on my boob.). February 12, 2011 at 5:36 AM. February 12, 2011 at 5:38 AM. View my complete profile.
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toothpick archipelagos: March 2011
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Thursday, March 17, 2011. I keep looking forward and then back again, shoulder-checking in my imaginary rear-view mirror. It's almost impossible to see right now. It's just a blur of lines on the highway. And I'm fighting just to stay awake. Today, I was crying sitting on the floor of Leila's bedroom and she crawled over to me, pulled herself up and wrapped her arms around my neck and put her head on my shoulder and didn't let go for a long time. Is that a metaphor? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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toothpick archipelagos: May 2011
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Thursday, May 26, 2011. No mother is an island. Everything is going to be alright. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I'm just trying to navigate my way through the pitfalls of the incredible love I feel for my baby, with irony, and maybe a little sarcasm. View my complete profile. No mother is an island. No one should see this. I'm driving myself crazy. Oh you don't know the shape im in!
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