Conversations on disability, travel, family & art. Grab some coffee. stay for a while
1. The bathroom… …becomes a den of Fast Orange. All other soap is kicked out and you notice he has gone whole hog with the stuff, buying it in the largest bulk size possible (“it came with a hand brush!” he says). 2. All reading material lying around… …pertains to trucks. There’s the Truck [...]
I lived in Japan for a long time, you know. Well, in Japan Christmas is for lovers. New Years is for family. Valentine’s Day is where GIRLS give BOYS the red stuff (red heart shaped boxes and such). And exactly one month later, on WHITE DAY (March 14th), BOYS give GIRLS white stuff (white heart [...]
About 6 years ago – exactly right around 6 years ago, actually – I was sitting outside of the warehouse in which I lived, drinking my coffee and smoking my morning cigarette (s). I watched as my neighbour struggled to open the huge sliding gate. He was struggling as he was carrying one of those [...]
Well, Mikey. First you took the baby out of my arms to feed him when you got home from the laundromat (and doing all of our laundry) at midnight. I had the worst headache of my life and I crumbled to the couch in gratitude. When I woke up it was 2:30 in the morning [...]
I was a little incredulous with Little Man's birth, that it was happening it all. Scared of what childbirth would be like, I focused long and hard on the actual passage of his body out of mine. We had the last-minute find of his being breech and the 11th hour struggle to turn him around [...]
[I am re-posting this as in the deliciously delightful way of regular marriage, I forgot our own anniversary! It's July 18th, not June 18th. Honey, I"m sorry and I love you even if I have noodles for brains] I had just returned from a month-long backpacking trip around a few South American countries. I was [...]
On Marriage, Kahlil Gibran You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore. You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days. Ay, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God. But let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens [...]
We went to Miraflores, a town with a lovely name and even lovelier attitude coupled with unspoiled town loveliness. That's a lot of lovely and indeed, we loved it. Miraflores, the kind of town that seems to be rapidly disappearing in the Baja, the kind of town with small shops that specialize in one thing [...]
It's a rare night indeed that I get to say goodnight to Micah. I normally nurse Moxie to sleep (and knock myself out at the same time) while Mikey puts Micah to bed. So the other night when I went into his room with Mikey and leaned over his crib and looked at him… was [...]
love, love, love
