What Else Can We Say But Yes?
My child has taken to repeating, mantra-like, “No No No No!” when his intentions are thwarted by a safety-conscious parent, such as myself. I had read that this behavior is quite common, but it’s quite interesting despite its prosaic nature.…
Prepping for China
Getting ready– small, agile laptop. Online backups we hope we can access. Installing server on laptop to run dev sites. Drinking water.
Skeleton of Christmas
Sitting in the semi-dark of Lucian’s room, playing with a wordpress app for my new “smartphone” (a title no object deserves when it requires so much instruction and direction), reviewing family, christmas, music, and food in my head (in that…
Floating…
Trying to pull off the cobwebs of sleep, leftover from the long and spine-scraping weekend. When Iryna is sick, the whole world is off-kilter. Sleep was the first sacrifice. Yesterday, a nice “day off”, was confounded by an overtaxed nervous…
Stray Thoughts from the Edge of Citizenship
So, those in the know know that today was Iryska’s Citizenship Ceremony … we were both running on a wave of coffee and adrenaline over a deep and wide sleep-deficit (like, Mariana Trench style), but coasted through in fine form…
wonderful days, these
There is much to tell you, gentle reader– much more than I have time for this mild subtropical morning in San Diego. But I shed the warm blankets of blogging-laziness to announce one thing: Thursday, June 22nd, saw the unanticipatedly-kind…
and speaking of beauty
on the East Coast, this is already fact; on the West Coast, there is still about forty minutes… so I sit on the cusp of my two month anniversary, happily wedded [though too often separated] to Iryna Clark, born Kotlyarova,…