For a week I wore no pants. My makeup was the slight burn of the sun turning to tan. My hair was dried by the air and styled by the salty sea breeze. We only went indoors to sleep.
But now, it has come time to return to reality. To a world of work and preschool, where pumpkin spice lattes replacing the sweet juices of pineapple and watermelon. Continue reading
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I just got back from vacation.
I could sit here and regale you with the wondrous tales of tropical islands and the Happiest Place on Earth.
Or.
I could go stand in a hot shower until the water turns cold before climbing back into MY bed for one last hurrah of comfort and relaxation before life resumes to our routine tomorrow at daybreak.
Guess which one I’m choosing? Continue reading
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Sometimes life takes a turn and you are left with no words with which to express your emotion. When you are a writer, this can pose a problem.
I first “met” Diana from Hormonal Imbalances on Twitter. She had just been admitted to the hospital; her water had broken at 18 weeks gestation with her twin boys. From there on out, I was emotionally attached to her story. I wanted those boys to make it. I wanted her to hold on and defy the statistics – if for no other reason than to show hospital administrators up for thinking her an emotional pregnant basket case. Continue reading
Did you know I actually work with Clinton from AlliOSNews in my real life? Yup. But he lives in the U.K. I live in Silicon Valley (the motherland (Steveland?) of the Infinite Apple Loop cult). And a couple weeks ago, Clinton visited us yankees during a business trip to our company’s corporate headquarters.
To properly integrate him back into stateside culture, we took Clinton to a baseball game, and later in the week – we dined at the hotspot of overindulgence largesse, The Cheesecake Factory. (Bazinga!) Continue reading
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I write a monthly column over at AlliOSNews. It’s a techie site – extolling all the goodies and gunpowder on the Apple OS. (SHINY TOY!) I’m TechMom. And these are my stories on how technology is really used. This is what you must deal with as I am a Silicon Valley nerd by day.
(I think this is the first time this was actually posted on a Tuesday here. But full disclosure, this was posted over at AlliOSNews for all things Apple last Tuesday. TechMom Tuesday is typically published the first Tuesday of every month. I reserve the right to rant more or less as the technical goings-on, well…go on.) Continue reading
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Fifty years ago the issue of prematurity rose to the forefront of the national conscious with the brief life of Patrick Bouvier Kennedy. Born at 35 weeks, a late-term preemie who’d likely have only the briefest of NICU stints today, the first child born to a sitting U.S. president since 1893 spurred the burgeoning field of neonatology after his death at less than two days old.
This week the New York Times published an op-ed on the ethics of the heroic life-sustaining measures now available to infants at increasingly younger gestational ages. It should not surprise you that this piece sent the preemie community into a tizzy. Continue reading
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August is National Breastfeeding Month (or so my Facebook tells me) so I thought what better than to titillate you with a post about boobs. (Pun totally intended.)
Boobs. Let’s face it, they’re a subject adored by many. Including, apparently, my darling tot who’s taken to reading the catalog at an early age. Continue reading
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Many of you have checked out the FAQ. It should answer most of your initial burning questions. As the muppets are now much more like real boys, I’ve updated the section. Take a peek. Let me know if there are any additional outstanding inquiries that need to be addressed for masses via a quick consumption format.
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I know. You’re going to ask, “How’s The Book coming?” And the truth is, I’ve been working on it.
Slowly.
Very. Slowly.
Because the easy parts are done. It’s just the initial (not very pleasant) chapter that looms ahead of me. And yeah, truth be told, I’m scared of rejections (which I know I’ll get) as I search for an agent.
But, the muppets are now three-years-old. And I finally got my hands on the 3,000 pages of medical records. So I’m kind of reinvigorated.
You’re presently accustomed to seeing a post every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. I wanted to let both of my loyal readers know that moving forward you’ll be seeing my witticisms Tuesday and Thursday (and this is not only just because no one reads blogs on Friday).
For you and perhaps partially for myself (it’s far to easy to get lost in the instant gratification of a blog post) I reiterate that I am not leaving this blog. I’ll still be posting muppet stories – and I’m certain some well-timed stories will need to go up immediately.
I love writing. I always have. And through this journey of infertility to fully formed family via the road less traveled of prematurity, it has also been therapeutic. This is part of the reason I am making a public declaration to focus more on that initial story.
I’ll still be writing just as much – and shall return to my regularly scheduled posts upon completion of my memoirs.
I leave you with a photo of Destroy – proof positive that I won’t be running out of ideas for posts anytime soon.
