I am overdue for a brilliant thought. Everything that passes through my mind is either mundane or banal.

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Last night my husband said to me, “I think baby pajamas were designed to look extra cute on babies.”

Read More I Don’t Know Who’s Cuter

Last Monday night when he finally signed “please” without my guiding hand I was elated. Yay! I’ll have a polite son! Something clicked that night. He finally figured out that moving his arms not only got attention but conveyed meaning. It was an explosion of words. By this last weekend (five days from the breakthrough) […]

Read More 1-2-3 Communicate With Me

Today I feel so blessed. I have friends who respect me enough to tell me the truth, I have a husband who works a job he hardly likes so that I can stay home with our son (I hope that changes, though, I hope he can get a more fulfilling job), and I have a […]

Read More Sunny Day

Somewhere in me is the capacity to be deep, to spelunk soul caverns. I haven’t been exploring in a while, but I know that I’m capable of going further. If I really put my mind to it I’m sure I could, but being mediocre and superficial has its benefits: it’s pretty and I don’t have […]

Read More Stay on the Surface and Smell the Flowers

I took Music Literature during my last semester at Ricks. I was engaged to Paul who was already in Hawaii so I figured this would be my best opportunity to take the class: I had extra time on my hands. Not long into the semester someone else got engaged. (Spring was coming, you know. We […]

Read More Wedding [Intellectual] Wasteland

Weekly Anamnesis is a cyber writing project hosted by Natalie.Connection What’s more romantic than meeting on the stage of the Barrus Concert Hall setting up for a concert at which we’d both perform? I was so weary of guys, of dating, of the meaningless lack of … meaning. So tired of him-Mr. Wrong, and tired […]

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