Bread and Roses

"I hope I don't have a nightmare.  I had a nightmare that there was a gun and bullets.  I hid, so I didn't get dead.  All the k...

My first holiday without my little big girl.  I felt her absence, but I was okay.  And helped along by a jewish/french/korean extravaganza w...

This morning LB woke up next to me, "Mama, it's morning, it's morning." "Why don't you get up and play, I'll ...

No time to compose, so I'm just going for it. Providence doesn't really seem to celebrate Veterans' Day in any big public way....

Yesterday was LB's birthday, and I spent a lot of it crying.  Because I didn't wake up with my daughter.  Because 5 is so old.  Beca...

I enjoyed a full weekend of marching brass bands this past weekend-visiting friends in Boston (Somerville really) for HONK, and t...

That is, the 5 minutes between now and when I start getting ready for work.  The small child is off-site. After I complained about too many ...