SOMETHING MY HUSBAND SAID RECENTLY THAT MAYBE HE SHOULDN'T HAVE:
"I feel great! I got twelve hours of sleep last night!"
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I've settled on a word for how having a baby makes me feel: peeled.
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A couple Sundays ago, I lay on my back on SJ's bed (fully clothed -- it's not that kind of a transition) and pressed a stethoscope against my belly -- and the baby kicked the stethoscope!
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All week I've felt like crying. It feels exactly like the low-grade nausea I had during my first trimester, without the nausea. There's no REASON for me to cry, and I DON'T cry, but I FEEL like crying.
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Try to get pregnant at 40, and everyone has a story. Recently a friend of a friend shouted the following at me across a table in a bar in Denver, about a friend of hers giving birth:
"SHE TORE TO HER ASSHOLE. SHE TORE INSIDE AND OUT."
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On Tuesday, September 13, 2016, at 12:50 a.m., I was literally I AM USING THAT WORD CORRECTLY PAY ATTENTION MILLENNIALS jolted by a 3.5 earthquake.
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My Mom updated her website. This is the description of one of her artist books:
Read MoreWhy Me? 2003
Why Me? is about acne from an adolescent girl's perspective. Text by Jenny [last name]. 9" x11" handmade paper with embedded dried beans, inkjet text.
I have a cousin. Let's call her Agata. She's my mother's first cousin once removed, she's my parents' downstairs neighbor, she's my parents' landlord, and she's driving my mother around the bend, which is bad news for everyone.
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Two of my closest friends recently had kids (again), which, as David Cross says, is rude. I made a date to visit the friend who lives in the Excelsior and decided that, instead of taking a cab, I'd take public transportation.
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