From the monthly archives:

July 2004

fountain of youth

July 23, 2004

last night as I lay beside my sleeping girl chatting with her dad before we too drifted into dreamland, I heard a strange lapping sound. Looking down, I saw that the pressure of the mattress touching my breast had caused it to spout milk, which was raining in a perfect little arc right into the [...]

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feminism

July 23, 2004

In a recent conversation, a friend said, “I’m not a feminist.” It would have seriously derailed our conversation to pursue the matter then, but I’ve been puzzling on it. I’m curious what you, by which I mean all of you, not just the person I left that conversational thread hanging with, think a feminist is. [...]

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To my daughter on the occasion of her mother’s birth

July 22, 2004

Tiny goddess of my body I’m twenty-six today, and you have Two months and two days even In the world. The tail end of our nap this afternoon found you curled Against my skin as if you Did not care if we were one or two. Startled by the beauty of your eyes, I (inadvertently) [...]

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writer v. mother

July 22, 2004

today, attempting to read as she nursed, I dropped a book on her head.

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work v. baby

July 18, 2004

the mother of my new tutoring student just called and said that when I asked her son, as we were ending our first session, if he was comfortable with my continunig to bring my baby to our tutoring meetings, and he said, quite readily and confidently, ‘yes’, he was lying. she asked if we could [...]

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today

July 15, 2004

was a good day. I worked for real pay for the first time since her birth and she slept like an angel on my lap through my entire tutoring session. also went to writers group! yay!

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excercises in cruelty: motherhood at week seven

July 14, 2004

As has been noted, Rio hates the car. Not really willing to give up my entire life to act as a combination bed/snack bar, I keep taking her out in the car. Tonight, I took her to belly dancing class. This was a big deal. It’s the first time, almost since her conception, that I’ve [...]

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hmm…

July 11, 2004

me: are my breasts really that big? M: yeah. don’t you see me orbiting around them? (in other words, we downloaded another set of pictures. you can see them here. lots of cute baby, plus awesome fire dancing shots, pagan gathering and party pics)

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free at last

July 8, 2004

I just formally quit my job. wow.

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weird

July 8, 2004

Based on the lj interests lists of those who share my more unusual interests, the interests suggestion meme thinks I might be interested in1. art score: 82. singing score: 83. lord of the rings score: 84. stars score: 85. dreams score: 76. vampires score: 77. nine inch nails score: 68. donnie darko score: 69. monty [...]