this was published last year and i really read it yesterday and i really, really loved it. really (okay, i promise to stop).
NEWS ABOUT MIDDLE-AGEby Mary Sagala Verleur
Tomorrow, I may die, never having known I was middle-aged at 20Completely cheated out of my mid-life crisis.
Chubby Staley was middle-aged at 8 years old whenHe threw a [...]
Entries from January 2008
January 30, 2008
a poem not written by me
January 29, 2008
the little old man and the little old woman
awhile back there was an article in the community newspaper about a jewelry shop in my city that was robbed at gunpoint. the story, while badly written, told the story of how the thief was a friendly man who had come in previously and was smiling and telling jokes. the store, which is owned and [...]
January 26, 2008
i added a baby ticker
first of all, it says 222 days to go. i find that to be depressing.secondly, my baby looks. . .ugly.
i’d say it was too soon for the ticker.
January 25, 2008
dreams are made of these
when ava was first born i saw ryan holding her up to the pictures on our walls and talking to her. he was describing the pictures. she was hungry and started to fuss and as he handed her over to me, he said, “there. now she has something to dream about.”
January 24, 2008
sorry for all of that global warming
i am a reptile. this was discovered just this week, when it rained and all of the cold seeped into the house and made it so that i couldn’t move. for some reason, all of the people who build homes in california don’t feel that insulation is important. i guess because it’s california and it, [...]
January 23, 2008
notes
when ava runs, i can hear her diaper rustling. it’s adorable.
it’s amazing to think about the time i’ve spent with her. i mean, it’s almost all of my time and in her lifetime, the moments spent without me are few and far between.
here is a picture from our cake making:
January 22, 2008
bits and pieces
first things first: i made a cake yesterday. i was looking through my cookbook yesterday and saw a picture of a cake and i thought, ‘that’s pretty. i want to make it.’ so i did.i had five bars of energy yesterday instead of my usual ten and i used up 4.5 on a cake. good [...]
